The Kalahandi police on Tuesday arrested four inter-district criminals who were involved in a series of robbery and dacoity cases in Kalahandi, Balangir, Nuapada, Kandhamal and Bargarh districts.
The nabbed accused had robbed cash of nearly 20 lakh from the complainants under different police station area in the last one year.The accused were identified as M Ganesh (25), A Ranjit Rao (37), D Akash (27) and J Chendu (18). All are natives of Ganjam district. Police have seized two motorbikes, three mobile phones and Rs 1.33 lakh cash from their possession.
The arrestees were also involved recently in robbing Rs 1.09 lakh from one Udhaba Sunani of Ambaguda village under the Dharmagarh police station, who was returning from Dharmagarh SBI branch after withdrawing the money on August 13. The four accused snatched the bag with the money from Udhaba when he was about to board an auto rickshaw and sped away from the spot by their bikes. A case was lodged in this connection. In another case the robbers had looted Rs 24,000 here from a railway employee 18 days ago. He was on the way to home after withdrawing his pension money from the bank.
After verifying CCTV footage, police began investigation by forming a team consisting personnel from Dharmagarh, Junagarh and Bhawanipatna town police.
Kalahandi SP said it was revealed during probe that before committing a crime, the robbers used to take a house in rent in urban areas to use it as a hideout.They had also taken a house on rent in Bhawanipatna also, from where they were nabbed but one of their aides managed to give a slip to police, sources said.