The Bhubaneswar Government Railway Police (GRP) has arrested a person for allegedly drugging and looting car drivers and then fleeing with the vehicles. The accused Gangadhar Das (32) alias Prakasah, a resident of Karanja village under the Marshaghai police station in Kendrapada district, was apprehended on Friday evening at the Bhubaneswar railway station.
Bhubaneswar GRP station IIC Soubhagya Kumar Swains said that Prakash had hired an Indica car driven by one Krushna Chandra Sutar of Manijangapatana of Nimapara from the taxi-stand near the station plat form number six and asked him to visit Puri.
At a lodge in Puri, Prakash applied stupefying drugs to the driver in food. When the driver fell unconscious, he left the place with the vehicle.