The Commissionerate Police on Wednesday forwarded two associates of the Tito gang, arrested on Tuesday, to court. They were identified as Chiku and loka.
“As part of the special drive of the Commissionerate Police to apprehend hardened criminals, we arrested Dil Nawaz Khan alias Chiku, son of Abdul Feroz Khan of Diwan Bazar in Cuttack and one of the top members of the Tito gang and seized two live country-made bombs, gunpowder and bomb-making articles from his possession,” Cuttack DCP Sanjeev Arora told reporters. Arora said Chiku was involved in a number of criminal activities in the undivided Cuttack district. He was wanted in a firing case at lalbag in the city on January 1 this year. “Till date, Chiku has seven cases, including the fresh case registered by the police today,” he said.
He said police also arrested lokanath Sahu alias loka, who was working under Athana Sahu, an anti-social of Chauliaganj in Cuttack, currently in jail.
“The Chauliaganj police got specific information yesterday that loka is scheduled to arrive at a specified place to sell country-made guns.
Police caught him red-handed and seized a 6-mm country-made pistol and five live bullets from him,” he informed.
The DCP said while several cases are pending against loka in the Choudwar and Mangalabag police stations in Cuttack, there are two cases of bullying against him in the Mancheswar and Sahid Nagar police stations in Bhubaneswar.