Bhubaneswar, Aug 3: The Odisha Police on Sunday arrested two inter-state burglars from New Delhi in connection with a burglary from Saheed Nagar, Bhubaneswar on July 21.
The accused have been identified as Khurshid Khan of Haryana and Mohammad Arif of Uttar Pradesh.
According to Police Commissioner S. Dev Datta Singh, the burglars had decamped with 230 grams of gold jewellery with huge amounts of cash from a government quarter.
Acting on digital and manual intelligence inputs, police traced the suspects to the north-east zone of Delhi.
A team arrested the mastermind of the case with a key member from the Seemapuri area in New Delhi.
The police recovered Rs 18 lakh cash from their possession.
According to the police, the gang is involved in series of burglaries committed across multiple states including Delhi, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, and Bihar.
Further investivation is underway to capture the entire string and recover other valuables, said the CP, Bhubaneswar.
