The Barbil police on Monday nabbed members of a hywa truck lifters gang and court forwarded five accused in this connection. One TK Bedian, driver of hywa truck No.
OD- 14C- 8244, after unloading iron ore, had parked the vehicle at Barbil andgone to a nearby hotel for dinner. At around 12.30 am, when hereturned to his truck, 4-5 unknown persons swooped down on him withdeadly weapons and forced him to drive the truck towards Barbiljungle. At an isolated place, the miscreants snatched the mobile andRs7, 000 from Bedian before fleeing with the vehicle and leaving thedriver behind.
However, after Vijay Kumar Jain, a resident of the Barbil who is theowner of the theft vehicle lodged a written complaint in the Barbilpolice station, the police swung into action and a team led by BarbilPS IIC Sushanta Kumar Dash raided at different places and finallycaught hold of the miscreants. The arrestees were identified as Mina (35) alias Mahendra Mahakud,Raju Das (21), Rahul Mahanta (19), Akash Karua (19) and Rohit Singh(21). All the accused are the natives of Barbil
