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Cuttack, May 10: Commissionerate police Sunday arrested eight persons accused of involvement in three separate loot cases under Jagatpur, Choudwar and 42 mouza police limits.
One revolver, one Mauser, three bullets, four motorcycles and `50,000 in cash were seized from their possession, said DCP Sanjeev Arora at a press conference here.
Police officials have said that the police honed in on the accused by tracking the mobile phones that they were using.
About 10 bike-borne miscreants had waylaid Sukhdev Das, branch manager of a finance company, on Krishnapur-Satyabhamapur road in Jagatpur May 3 and robbed him of `1.54 lakh, a cell phone and gold chains at gunpoint.
A special police team raided several places in the city to nab the accused who were absconding after committing the crime, Arora said. The four had several robbery cases lodged against them at different police stations in the city, he said.
A police team led by ACP Trinath Mishra raided the hideout of the four accused, who have been identified as Ranjan Samal of Tangi, Brahmananda Rout of Kesharpur, Ranjit Behera of Jagatpur and Chinmay Samal of Bahugram. The other members of the gang are still at large, police officials said. About `32,000 in cash was seized from those arrested.
In another incident under 42 mouza, five miscreants had looted `60,000 from a petrol station employee May 3 brandishing gun at him. Based on the complaint filed by the petrol pump owner, police had registered a case. The police nabbed two accused — Milan Maharana and Jagan Pradhan — after raiding different places in the city and seized one revolver and three mobile phones from them.
In a third incident April 28, a postmaster of Kumarpur Ishwar Dehuri was robbed of `15,000 at Badapada village under Choudwar police limits. Two accused, Rajesh Kumar Biswal and Subhakanta Nayak were arrested. All the accused would be produced in court Monday, police said.