Three criminals, including an engineering student, were arrested while they were planning for loot along the Bhubaneswar-Puri bypass road late on Friday night.
Acting on a tip-off, the Quick Action Team (QAT) of the Commissionerate Police, which directly functions under the control of the Commissioner of Police, and Mancheswar police station officials nabbed the trio identified as Sujit Jena (26), Rakesh Kumar Sahoo (24) and Manas Ranjan Sahoo (30) at around 2.30 am on Friday.
They all were forwarded to court on Saturday. While Sujit, an auto-rickshaw driver and a resident of Bomikhal under the laxmisagar police station, was also involved in several crimes in past, police were investigating criminal antecedents of Manas, a resident of Balianta, and Rakesh, the engineering student and a resident of Deogarh district.
Police seized two bikes, five live bullets and a revolver from their possession. During investigation, it was revealed that the seized bikes were stolen ones.
While a Hero Honda Hunk motorcycle was ascertained to have been stolen from the lingaraj PS area, a Glamour bike was stolen from the Mancheswar police station jurisdiction.