Dacoity attempt foiled at Rayagada station

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Source: The Hindu (http://www.hinduonnet.com/2009/12/22/stories/2009122252910300.htm)
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Dacoity attempt foiled at Rayagada station


Staff Reporter
BERHAMPUR: General public with the help of personnel of the Government Railway Police (GRP) foiled a dacoity attempt at Rayagada railway station in south Orissa on Monday.
A member of the dacoit gang could be nabbed. Around Rs. 4.15 lakh of cash of the railways would be saved by their prompt action. According to sources around 11.30 a.m. railway officials had got together the cash collected from the booking counters. They were on their way to deposit the cash in the bank.
But the railway officials did not know that an inter state gang of dacoits were tracking them. Six members of the gang pounced on the railway officials carrying the cash. They tried to snatch the cash and run. But they were unlucky. The shouts of the railway officials activated the public at the station and the GRP personnel. They managed to round up the miscreants who held the bag having the cash. But the other five members of the gang managed to escape.
The total cash taken away by the dacoits was recovered. The rounded up dacoit got good beating at the hand of the public before the police could arrest him.
The arrested dacoit was identified as Prabin Nayak of Rayagada town. His interrogation has revealed that this dacoity attempt was made by the ‘Jamuna Jambu’ dacoit gang.
This gang of dacoits is active in Rayagada district of Orissa, Vizianagaram, Parvatipuram districts of Andhra Pradesh, police sources said.


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