Bhubaneswar, July 27: Six people — two thieves and four people who had bought stolen goods —were today sent to jail after a local court rejected their bail pleas.

The Khandagiri police arrested them from places within and outside the city and seized three motorcycles, nine gold chains, one ring, two earrings, cash worth Rs 10,000 and three duplicate keys.

Police said that the accused duo — identified as Banambar Patro, 35, from Khandagiri and Mir Sallauddin, 34, from Balasore — were involved in several jewellery snatching and motorcycle theft cases in the city. On July 23, they had snatched a gold chain from a woman in Jagannath Vihar in Baramunda.

The other accused arrested on charges of receiving the stolen materials, were identified as Rajan Mohapatra, 35, Bijay Kumar Subuddhi, 49, Samrat Keshari Biswal, 24, and Ramesh Kumar Sahu, 30. While Biswal, an engineering student, hails from Kendrapara, Rajan is from Bhubaneswar and the two others are from Banki.

Police said that the thieves had sold the stolen ornaments to Rajan and Subuddhi, two goldsmiths. The other two accused had purchased stolen motorcycles from the snatchers who were also involved in several motorbike theft cases in the city.

A police officer said that the complainant, Sandhyarani Sundarray, had her chain snatched while she was returning home last Saturday after dropping her daughter off at a coaching centre early in the morning.

The goons fled from the spot following a scuffle with the woman in which the mobile phone of one of them fell there. Police later seized the mobile phone that led them to trap and arrest the goons who had escaped out of the city within a week.

Deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Nitinjeet Singh said that they first arrested Banambar from the city by tracking the mobile phone and with inputs from him they arrested others from various parts of the state and seized several stolen properties from them. “We have arrested them under Section 379 (theft) of the Indian Penal Code. They were produced in the court,” said Singh.

He also said that the prime accused Banambar had been produced at the court on five occasions from Lingaraj police station for snatching gold chains from women out for morning walks. The DCP said that in the last two months the city police had successfully tracked down several such chain snatcher gangs.