Police, after carrying out raids at the District Headquarters Hospital and the Regional Transport Office premises here, arrested six touts who were minting money by misleading people.
Harendra Samal (40) of Singla area, Rashmiranjan Das (36) of Tantisahi, Rabindra Panigrahi (45) of Kesharpur while were nabbed from the DHH premises by the Town police, Amarnath Ghosal (58) of Jaleswar area, Diptikanta Swain (45) of Soro and Gagan Chandra Sahu (39) of Basta area were apprehended from the RTO campus by the Industrial police.
Reports said the accused persons apprehended from the DHH campus were diverting patients to private clinics, nursing homes as well as diagnostic centres and similarly, those nabbed from RTO campus were extracting illegal money in the name of making driving licences, ownership change and other jobs related to vehicles.
They were forwarded to court, said police.