The Choudwar police, during routine patrolling on Saturday night nabbed three persons while they were planning to commit a robbery in the town.
The arrestees were identified as Chittaranjan Das, Mitu Samal and Ananda Samal. During frisking, police seized a country made gun and couple of bullets from their possession. A number of dacoity, loot cases are pending in various police stations in Cuttack district against the trio.
“The accused were travelling on a scooty and were detained during routine patrolling. During their personal search, we found the firearm. We are trying to ascertain the source of procurement of the revolver,” said a police official.
Further investigation revealed the trio of being involved in at least nine cases of robbery, dacoity, theft and burglary in various police stations in Cuttack district. We are further verifying their antecedents,” added the police official.