Two more Suleman gang members arrested

Kendrapara, Dec 14 (UNI) Police today arrested two more associates of gang leader Suleman on charges of terrorising a contractor and disturbing peace.

Kendrapara IIC Santanu Dash said Biswaranjan Rath of Karuna village under Tirtol police station and Mahendra Das of Badabhoi area under Athagarh police station were arrested on the charges of terrorising one Babuli Moharana, a contractor.

With the arrest of these two, the number of arrest made so far in connection with the incident went up to four.

Last evening police arrested Srinivas Das and Sunil Singh of the same gang on the same charges.

The gang members were threatening Moharana and forcing him to withdraw his tender, which he had filed for a work in R&B department.

According to police, while the duo were threatening Maharana with arms and ammunition for not obeying their direction, the local people nabbed them and handed them over to the police yesterday.

All the four were produced before the SDJM court of Kendrapara today and sent to jail on rejection of their bail petitions.

UNI