Police on Wednesday arrested four persons, including a frontline PLFI cadre, allegedly involved in the loot of a roadside eatery on November 19.
The arrestees were identified as PLFI member Binod Tete (28), Pradeep Xalco (25), Chandan Nayak (26) and Xaviour Tete (30).
Police recovered Rs 35,000 cash, two country made pistols, two bullets, a sword, two motorcycles from the possession.
Owner of an eatery in front of the Jalda mini stadium, Ramesh Sahoo, had lodged a complaint in the Jalda police outpost that four miscreants had barged into his restaurant and had looted about Rs 35,000 cash, two sets of silver ornaments and two mobile phones from his shop, sources said.
Acting on the complaint of Sahoo, police conducted a raid and arrested the four persons and recovered the looted cash amount from them.
IIC Raghunathpalli police station IIC Somanath Jena said that the Tete is involved in series of crimes and has 10 cases pending in different police stations of the district. The other three accused have also PLFI links, added Jena.