The Commissionerate police on Thursday arrested five criminals here and seized two automatic guns, four rounds of live cartridges and country-made bombs from their possession.
The police, after interrogating the accused, forwarded them to court. The arrested were identified as Manish Narang (32) of Punjabi lane in the Madhupatna area of Cuttack, Pratap Chandra Rout (28) of Hatabanga village under the Barchana police station of Jajpur district, Suraj Kumar Bhoi (22) of Ohala village in Jagatsinghpur district, Putul alias Soumya Ranjan Rout of Balisahi in the Badambadi area of Cuttack and Bhalu alias Mukhtar Shah (32) of Bhabanipur under the Biridi police station in Jagatsinghpur district. Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma said the five arrested criminals were involved in gunrunning since a long time.