The Town police here on Wednesday produced the four accomplices of gangster Tito before the SDJM court of Kendrapara and the court remanded them to jail custody after rejecting their bail petitions, stated SP Rabi Narayan Behera.
They were Nalinikanta Bal alias Tuku, Sayed Asfaque Ali alias G Babu, Hibjur Rehman and Sk Sarif. While Rehman is a Congress councillor of ward no-14 of Kendrapara municipality and a relative of hardcore criminal Tito, G Babu is Tito’s younger brother. The four had been arrested for demanding extortion money from a few construction companies entrusted to undertake Cuttack-Chandabali road widening and Paradip-Haridaspur railway line project.
According to police sources, Tuku Bal alias Nalinikanta Bal was also arrested by Kendrapara police in Pradeep Parida murder case for tender fixing in 2005. G Babu, the younger brother of Tito, was involved in several tender fixing cases and also in extortion cases earlier. Babu was operating the whole crime syndicate in the absence of Tito.