The Raghunathpali police here arrested two inter-state jewellery thieves from Jharkhand who were involved in two robbery incidents in the Maa Durga Jewellery at STI Chowk on August 22 and September 29.
Police source said basing on the FIR of shop owner, the Raghunathpalli police went to Jharkhand and succeeded in arresting Sultan Shaik and Motiar Rahaman of Madhya Pirpur under the Radhanagar police station. During interrogation, it was revealed that six other members of the gang are absconding. Cases are also filed against them in Mumbai and Tamil Nadu. Though the Rourkela police brought the two accused and forwarded them to court on Saturday, about 320 grams of gold is not recovered from them.
In another incident, the Rourkela police have arrested three members of a gang which was involved in chain snatching and motorcycle theft cases for more than a year.
According to Rourkela SP AN Sinha, two thieves, Rakesh Bag and Bijendra Routray, of Sector-16 were arrested along with the receiver of stolen articles Sasikant Haripal of Sector-15. Five gold chains, 10 grams of melted gold and two Hero Honda bikes (OR-14H-7650 and OR-14U-3948) are recovered from them.
Sinha said that as the gold price is skyrocketing, the youths for easy earning are targeting women to snatch ornaments from them as the latter cannot protest effectively. And the nabbed youths belong to good background families. Sinha urged guardians to keep vigil on their wards. Besides crime control action, the police are also counselling the wayward youths to bring them to the mainstream.