The Nayapalli police busted a notorious chain snatchers’ gang with the arrest of three persons on Sunday. The cops also nabbed two receivers of stolen items. The arrested chain snatchers are Sudarshan Naik (30) Bulu Nayak (23), and Sarbeswar Gochayat (25) and the receivers are Lochan Kumar Behera (48) and Sushant Kumar Moharana (48).
As many as eight gold chains, one motorcycle with fake number plate, and one bike bearing registration No OD-33-W-9767 was seized from their possession.
Police said one Anusaya Das, a resident of CRPF Campus Type-II quarters had lodged a complaint on July 1 at the Nayapalli PS alleging that at about 3.10 pm, two unidentified bike-borne miscreants snatched her gold chain in front of Plot no. N-1/72 in the IRC Village area here.