The city police have arrested two dreaded dacoits who had unleashed a reign of terror and robbed properties worth crores of rupees in the city here.
According to information available, the Baidyanathpur police have arrested the two youths from Belladanga area of Murshidabad district in West Bengal who were reportedly involved in various robbery and loot incidents in the city here.
Notably, from third week of January to second week of February, a total of four incidents of robbery were reported out of which two cases under BN Pur police station, followed by one each in Bada Bazar and Town Police station had taken place.
Taking advantage of locking of the houses and absence of family members at home particularly in lonely and interior areas of the city, the accused broke the lock of the house of one Chintamani Behera of Ramakrushna Nagar of Khodasingi Kalinga Nagar area and looted Rs 40,000 cash and gold ornaments worth lakhs of rupees. When Behera returned home, he found that both cash and ornaments were gone. He lodged an FIR at the BN Pur Police Station. Accordingly, the police registered a case and started an investigation.
The arrested were identified as Alok Sekha (28) and Zahirudin Sekha (23). Cash and jewelleries were recovered from them.
Hundreds of such youths from West Bengal are working as masons and helpers in different apartments/building works under various contractors and builders in the city and during construction work, they keep the nearby locked houses under their vigil to commit robbery, said the BN Pur Police Station IIC. Due to such rising incident of burglary and looting in the city, the denizens are quite scared.