Dhenkanal police busted 5-member dacoit gang

DHENKANAL: Dhenkanal police busted a 5-member dacoity gang from Jhargadia area involved in so many dacoit cases.The arrested dacoits are identified as Himansu Sekhar swain,30,Sankar sahoo,25 of neheru nagar village under under ganeswar nagar police station in ganjam district, of Dharakot village under Dharakot police station in Ganjam district, pupun naik,30 of Siminai village in Dhenkanal,Ranjit Rout,30 of bahara village under banki police station in Cuttack district, and Amit Kumar swain,30 of Khalikot village in ganjam district.

At a press meet,Dhenkanal district SP Gyan Ranjan Mohapatra said while the dacoits were going in a car and a motorcycle police on suspicion intercepted their vehicle near Jhargadia on the national Highway-55 last night.On searching police found 3 country made pistols,38 live ammunitions,4 magazines,Bill Hook, CCTC hard dice,sword and 25 gram of brown sugar.

Police said the dacoits were planning to commit a dacoit at Angul on Monday night. Later,on interrogation, the dacoits confessed to their various crimes like murder,dacoity, burgulary, robbery in various parts of Ganjam district, Dhenkanal district and in other adjoining areas.]

Getting information from these dacoits,police had also conducted raids at several places in Cuttack and recovered gold ornaments,a TV and Rs 25,000 cash.

These dacoits had looted these seized goods from one Ranjana Tripathy of Dhenkanal last year.The dacoits confessed to have committed the dacoity at Ranjana Tripathy of Siminai village under Dhenkanal sadar police station on 24.12.2022 and had looted gold ornaments at gun point,SP said.

SP said three of the nabbed culprits are from Ganjam,one is from Dhenkanal and another is fom Banki area of Cuttack district.He informed that these dacoits had met each other in jail and they had formed a gang while in jail in connection with various crimes.

Investigations are on to unearth their crime records.,SP said.

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