The Kendrapada Town police on Monday night busted a bike lifting racket by nabbing six persons, including its kingpin, and seizing a motorbike, four mobile phones, four brass idols, 10 motorcycle rims, a weight machine and Rs 1,435 from them. The arrested were identified as Ullash Chandra Sahoo(34), Ketan Jena(27) and Manas Ranjan Tripathy (22) of Kacheripada village and Prasanna Kumar Rout (31) of Bilabalarampur under the Sadar PS, Gouranga Biswal (29) of Pakhat village under the Patkura PS and Sanjeeb Swain(36) of Badakhiri village under the Nischintakoili PS.
Manas is the kingpin of the racket and Sanjeeb Swain is the purchaser of the stolen items. They were forwarded to court on Tuesday, informed Kendrapada Town PS IIC Promod Kumar lenka. According to Kendrapada SP Satish Kumar Gajbhiye, the arrested were involved in nearly 12 crimes, including a temple burglary at Sakhibata under Patkura PS, two gold chain snatching and nine bike stolen cases in the town area here.