Two arrested in Unit-6 firing case

Looters commit crime to meet expenses of weapon purchase

--Police arrest two while tracking arm dealers

 
BHUBANESWAR: Two looters, who shot at a trader of Unit-6 area in the city and decamped with Rs 2.3 lakh from him, were arrested by the Commissionerate Police. More interestingly, the police got the names of the duo while tracking the arm dealers, said the police here on Wednesday.

The two looters were identified as Tripura Gauda (28) alias Chottu of Rambha area in Ganjam district and Prabhat Paikray (40) of Nimapada area in Cuttack district. The police seized three revolvers, 11 live bullets, the used bike for firing and hard cash of Rs 10,000 from the possession of the duo.

The looters confessed before the police that they committed the crime to meet the expenses to purchase fire arms.

According to the police, accused Paikray was working in a grocery shop near the victim trader Harish Prasad Rath (40) who works in Sachidananda Traders near Kali temple at Unit-6 area. The accused had hold discussions with a few arm dealers to purchase fire arms and accordingly he had planned to loot the trader Rath. He had asked Gauda and his friend to join with him.

The two arrested intercepted Rath at 10.45 am on Saturday in front of his office and fired at him while he was going in an Innova car to deposit money in a nearby bank. At first they shot at Rath’s right hand to get the money bag.

Rath had received bullets in his chest and fell unconscious on the spot. The miscreants managed to flee immediately from there with the money bag when the public tried to come closer.

“The third accused is still absconding. We are trying to arrest the third accused very soon,” said Bhubaneswar DCP Nitinjit Singh.