Finally, the Rourkela police on Saturday cracked as many as seven dacoity cases organised under Raghunathpalli, Plabt Site, Sector-7, Sector-3 and Koira police stations during the last five months by arresting six dacoits and two theft material receivers.
Mostly, the incidents had occurred in daytimes and it was a challenge for the police to crack them. The frequent occurrences had raised questions on the capability of police protect denizens’ lives and properties.
Police teams had conducted many raids in other States like Bihar, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to nab the dacoits.
Rourkela DSP PK Mishra said the mastermind of the gang were Pravat Tiwari and Rahul Sahu. They along with their friends collected information from the different sources about rich families in order to commit dacoity. The procured and harboured criminals were kept shelter in the house of Pravat. They committed all the crimes in a very planned manners without leaving any clue behind.
They used to commit crimes during the absence of house owners and other male members, said the SP. They terrorized female members and children on gun points and loot the families of cash and jewellery.
Arrested dacoits were identified as Pravat Tiwari, Asutosh Jha, Nabin Gupta, Mandira alias Sayun Soy, Birsa Munda and Rajesh Singh. Police siezed 200 gms of gold and 5kg silver ornaments, a pistol, a live cartridge and two motorcycles from them.
Besides, two others, Adhir Karmkar and Prahallad Prasad, were arrested as receivers of theft items.
Earlier, police had arrested Koel Bag, Sk Sajid and Sk Raju. Haunt is still o n to nab four-five more dacoits, including Rahul, said the SP.