Hyva truck robbery: Three arrested, 11 trucks seized in Odisha

Chinmayee Dash Published On : Mar 18, 2017 at 4:56 PM

Odisha Sun Times Bureau
Sambalpur, Mar 18:

Police today cracked the Hyva truck robbery by arresting three members of a gang and seized 11 trucks in Sambalpur district.

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The accused were identified as Babu Kank, Sudhir Parida of Sambalpur and Sunil Agarwal of Hirakud.

Babu kank, among the arrested accused, is a dreaded dacoit, said Sambalpur SP Akhileshvar Singh.

Around 19 dacoity cases have been lodged with police against him earlier, he said.

Acting on a tip off, Ainthapalli police arrested the three and seized 11 trucks.

The police had been trying to arrest these accused since a long time. The gang involved in the robbery used to sell the trucks outside Odisha by altering the engine and chassis numbers after robbery from different locations in the state.