In a major breakthrough in the sensational and broad daylight robbery at the Muthoot Finance office here last month, at least five dacoits involved in the crime have been arrested from Patna in Bihar.
The dacoits were nabbed after a joint operation by the Odisha police and the Bihar Special Task Force (STF), informed Sambalpur SP Sanjeev Arora. Police also seized 15 kg of gold from their possession.
Odisha and Bihar police traced the accused, who had looted cash and valuables from the Muthoot Finance office at Budharaja under the Ainthapali police limits in Sambalpur town on December 28.
The misreants, who had their faces covered, had come by a white Maruti Suzuki Swift car; and three of them barged into the office threatening the security guard at gunpoint. They thrashed some staffs at the cash counter and decamped with Rs 6 lakh and gold ornaments.