Police arrested six looters on Monday and seized Rs 2 lakh cash, two pistols, cartridges, mobile phones, sim cards and bikes from their possession allegedly used for the crime in Nahadipada- Bhatapada road under Naugaon block a month ago, informed DSP Manoj Mohanty.
Reports said that the loot case had been registered in Naugaon police station on the complaint of financial company representatives Jagannath Mallick and Gyanaranjan Sahoo stating armed looters had snatched away Rs 4 lakh from them at gun point when they were travelling on Nahadipada- Bhatapada road on August 8 afternoon.
Acting on the complaint, police had started investigation and three police teams had been formed to conduct probe. The teams visited several locations before zeroing in on the fugitive looters. A police team while taking clues from a source raided a hideout at a slum on Bhubaneswar outskirts on Monday and successfully captured the six miscreants. The cash, arms, ammunitions and other articles were seized there.
According to Naugaon police sources, the looters were identified as Subham Mohanty from Bhatapada, Durgaprsad Rath and Devi Prasad Mishra from Jagatsinghpur, Subrata Sahoo from Mancheswar, Riaz Ali Khan from Biridi and Faruk Saha, a resident of the Katasinghpur village near Jagatsinghpur.
Meanwhile, during police interrogation, all the looters have confessed to the crime and informed cops that they were working for a renowned builder at Bhubaneswar. They said to have been spent some money from the looted cash in purchasing mobile phones and for their girlfriends.