Police on Sunday arrested two persons for allegedly attempting to abduct a contractor and for vandalising his SUV late on Saturday night.
The arrestees were identified as Soumya Ranjan Behera of Sisupalgarh and Pratik Panigrahi of Mancheswar. The contractor was identified as Rajesh Patra, a resident of Dumuduma.
According to reports, a group of nearly 20 youths waylaid Patra near ITER College square under the Khandagiri police station and tried to abduct him. But when they failed they badly damaged his Mahindra XUV 500 SUV.
Meanwhile, the Khandagiri police, reached the spot and seized two SUVs and a number of lethal weapons from the spot. Though the cops managed to nab two youths, other involved in the attack managed to elude the police dragnet.
As per preliminary investigation, Patra, a local contractor along with his friends was having a booze party where the arrestees along with some others were also having booze.
However, an altercation ensued between both the groups over some issue and Patra with his friends allegedly beat up the other group, which was outnumbered at that time.
But the matter did not end there as the assaulted youths regrouped with others and started following Rajesh. The youths then intercepted his car and vandalised it, sources said.