Two Looters Active In Bhubaneswar & Cuttack City Arrested With 90 Smartphones

Cuttack: Police have nabbed two looters and seized 90 mobile phones, having a market value of around Rs 17 lakh, from their possession.

Addressing a presser at Cuttack, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Sheikh Sarifuddin said that the gang members  belong to Jharkhand and West Bengal and loot mobile phones from people at big fairs being organised in the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack. The duo were nabbed by police in plain clothes from a fair last night. Two other members of the gang managed to flee.

He further said that the accused were staying in rented houses under Laxmisagar and Lingaraj station police limits by identifying themselves as masons and daily wage workers. Their associates from Jharkhand and Bengal picked the stolen mobiles from them while they stayed put there.

Most mobile phones seized  during raids on these house are costly smartphone devices, Sarifuddin said.

“Efforts will be made to handover the seized police to their rightful owners,” he said, adding that manhunt has been launched to nab the absconding members of the gang and also traced involvement of others in the organised theft.