Four inter-state ATM looters nabbed by Dhenkanal police

DHENKANAL: Within two days of ATM looting a morning Dhenkanal district police has successfully cracked the case by arresting four dacoits belonging to outside state. The arrested dacoits are from Haryana and Rajasthan states. They are Rafiq Khan,35 and Sadam Majit Hussein of Luohu district of Haryana. Another two belong to Alwar district of Rajasthan are Aslam Mohammed,35 and Mohammad Nasif,35.Police seized around 8,27lakhs of rupees from their possession besides a number of mobiles, gas cutter machines and other instruments. Various ATM cards, fake number plates and other incriminating articles were seized from them..

SP Abhinav Sonkar said these criminals are involved in crimes like ATM theft and others mostly in the district of Sambalpur,Keonjhar and Dhenkanal. These criminals came to the state as the drivers from other states and indulged in ATM loot.

SP said,on Wednesday night when these criminals struck at SBI ATM at Panhubati by the side of NH-55 under Sadar police station police got information about that crime. The miscreants not only looted rupees 8.96 lakhs but also burnt the ATM machine.

A police team chased the car in which the criminals were fleeing and nabbed two of them.On their revelations police team rushed to bargarh district where they caught another two.

SP said investigations are on to find out local connections of these criminals and involvement of others in the gang.

The additional SP Suryamani Pradhan SDPO Bibhuti Mohapatra Sadar IIC Dipak Lenka,Motanga IIC Jitendra Patra and other officials were involved in tracking the criminals.

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