BHUBANESWAR: Six hours after they held hostage a family and robbed them in the City, Commissionerate Police during the wee hours of Saturday nabbed five dacoits and recovered cash and gold jewellery from their possession. During investigation, police traced the genesis of the dacoity to an acquaintance of the family with a neighbour who had provided the necessary information to the dacoits. The five dacoits have been identified as Prasant Padhy, Mithu Panigrahy, Ganga Reddy, Abhay Nayak and Santosh Nayak. From their possession, police recovered ` 4.07 lakh in cash and gold ornaments weighing 200 gram. Besides, three sharp weapons, six mobile phones and an autorickshaw were seized too. Late in the evening On Friday, the five had barged into a Provident Fund officer Giridghari Biswal’s home in Mancheswar’s Sameigadia. By holding the family members hostage, the five decamped with the loot. According to DCP Nitinjit Singh, the dacoits had moved out from Biswal’s house at about 10.15 pm and half an hour later, police found Prasant moving suspiciously in Mancheswar area. When he was picked up and quizzed, he provided important information and took police to a hideout in Ghatia where Mithun was arrested. The rest three were in Salia Sahi where police launched a raid successfully and recovered the cash and jewellery. Interesting as it may sound, investigation revealed that the PF officer’s daughter Bishnupriya - set to get married soon and for which all the cash and jewellery had been arranged - had friendship with wife of Brahmananda Jena, an autorickshaw driver and Biswal’s neighbour. Bishnupriya had apparently disclosed about the valuables to Jena’s wife who, in turn, had spoken to her husband about it. “Since two of the five dacoits worked as part-time autorickshaw drivers who had acquaintance with Jena, they passed on the information to them and made the plan,” Singh said. Jena is still at large.
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