The city police late on Monday night arrested eight looters from two separate places.
In one incident, the Mancheswar police arrested six persons foiling their loot attempt at Jagannath nagar area along the new Bhubaneswar-Puri by pass road. The seventh accused, however, managed to flee from the spot.
Four bhujalis, one iron rod, five mobile phones and some cash were seized from their possession.
The main accused Siba Prasad Mallick and his associates Surendra Rout, Abhinash Parida, Krushna Chandra Sahu, Surendra Majhi and Tutu Sahu, all from Puri, were booked under section 399, 402 of IPC and forwarded to court.
Similarly, in another case, the special squad of the Commissionerate Police arrested two persons in connection with a loot case and seized 15 mobiles, two laptops (Toshiba and Dell), a Samsung tab and a Samsung lCD from their possession in Budhanagar area here.
The seized electronics goods were worth around Rs 3 lakh, police said.
The accused, identified as Ajay Sahoo of Kadapada village under Anandpur police station in Keonjhar district and Sanjit Ray of Jamunga under Nuagaon Police station in Jagatsinghpur district, were forwarded to court on Tuesday.
Acting on a tip-off, the special squad raided the house of Ajay at Budhanagar area late on Monday night and seized these items.
Ajay bought these stolen items from the main accused Sanjit and was planning to sell them a broker in the city. The electronic items were stolen by Sanjit from various locations under Capital, Chandrasekarpur and Saheed Nagar police stations during the year, police sources said.