Balianta police foils dacoity bid, arrests six miscreants with arms & ammunition

Bhubaneswar: Balianta police reportedly foiled a dacoity bid and arrested six miscreants with arms and ammunition from near Ranga Bazaar last night.

A team of cops under the leadership of Balianta Inspector-In-Charge (IIC) Kabita Nayak reported;y conducted a raid in Ranga Bazaar Square area while the miscreants were hatching a dacoity plan near an isolated location.

On seeing the police team, the miscreants tried to flee the scene, but cops managed to arrest all of them whom they identified as Sambit Dakua Bapuna, Samir Nayak, Rama Swain, Sanjay Sahu alias Bhima, Somanath Behera aka Kalia and Kalandi Mallick alias Kalu.

Police also seized a Bajaj Discover motorcycle, a Mahindra Max pickup vehicle, five mobile phones, two iron swords and one big iron cutter, two iron diggers, an iron chapad and an open chilli powder packet, a liquor bottle and three torch lights from their possessions.

All the miscreants were forwarded to the court earlier today.