The rising incidents of burglary and looting in the city are a cause of worry both for the denizens and the local Police. During last one week, three such incidents have taken place.
The Town police, however, succeeded in nabbing six accused involved in such incidents and forwarded them to court on Wednesday after seizing cash of Rs 38,590 from them. One out of the six accused Saroj Kumar Panda alias Chinu was involved in more than 25 cases of looting money from SBI ATMs. He confessed before the police that he stole Rs 5 lakh from different ATMs of the SBI during the last two years, said SDPO Thakur Prasad Patra.
Other five accused are — Bajarangi Padhi, Sisir Das and Sudam Dangua residents of Talamentu Chhak and Sudip Maharana and Suman Nayak, residents of Gate Bazar.
The latter two accused were involved in burglary of Aryan Motors, Aska Road, said IIC of Town PS Anil Kumar Mishra.