The Commissionerate Police on Friday night arrested three persons and recovered 522 mobile phones, 215 laptops, 204 tablets, 210 pen drives, data cards and other IT products worth Rs4 crore from their possession in connection with the Rudrapur IT warehouse loot incident.
According to Commissioner of Police Dr RP Sharma, the arrested persons identified as Ramesh Mallik alias landa (30) of Drugapur Bhoisahi under Dharmasala police station, Manoj Kumar Rout (20) of Gopalpur area under Kuakhia police station in Jajpur district presently staying at Pahala under Balianta police station and Manoj Kumar Mandal (26) of Darpanarayanpur under Sarankul police station in Nayagarh presently staying at Damana under Chandrasekharpur PS along with four of their associates looted IT products of PRO Connect Supply Chain Solutions, a IT warehouse located at Rudrapur in Balianta on the city outskirts on January 8 night.
The seven miscreants first overpowered the aged security guard of the warehouse and took away the items. After committing the crime, the accused kept 70 per cent of the stolen items at Pahala while the rest were sent to Jajpur.
The Commissioner told mediapersons that one Nihar Ranjan Beura of the BIS Security agency who is working at a nearby IT warehouse was the mastermind in the crime.The rest four persons, including the mastermind, have been identified and would be arrested soon, added the top cop.
However, he wondered how such a big IT warehouse does not adopt CCTV system for security. He stated that a meeting in this regard would be held for representatives of major market committees on February 24.