Kendrapara Town police on Monday arrested one Kalpataru Jena, a resident of Gulanagar village, on charges of attempting to commit a highway robbery with four others. His four associates were also arrested.
They had assembled near Khamarapada Chowk on Paradip-Daitary Express Way and were planning to commit the robbery, IIC Sanjeev Kumar Mohanty said.
The arrested was booked in Town PS case no 141/16 under Sections 399 and 402 of IPC and was remanded into jail custody after his bail petition was rejected by court.
The four other arrested were identified as Naka alias Saukat Ali of Post office lane, Sk Rizo of Dilwarpur, Madan Jena of Alabanka and Prahallad Sethy of Chanchunia.