Keonjhar: The district police have arrested three employees of a private bank after they were caught on Saturday carrying Rs 50 lakh unaccounted cash.

Branch manager of IndusInd bank Manas Rout, sales officer Saroj Behera and a security guard of the bank were intercepted on Saturday with the cash stashed in a car in which they travelling.

"They were detained near Basudebpur in Champua police station limits. The bankers had failed to mention the source of the huge cache of the currency notes. The currency notes were not accounted in the bank. As they failed to offer satisfactory explanation, we arrested them," said Smruti Prava Pradhan, inspector of Sadar police station.

The trio have been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 109, 141, 148, 149, 341, 283, 294 and 506 and also relevant sections of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1982. They were sent to jail custody on Sunday after a local court rejected their bail applications.

The police said that the money was meant for delivery to an outfit that is spearheading anti-toll cess movement. People's protest at Banajodi toll plaza complex, about seven kilometres from the district headquarters township, has been continuing for the past two months.

Minor raped

A nine-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a 17-year-old boy on January 12. "The boy entered the house of the girl when she was alone. The police swung into action after the girl told her ordeals to her mother," said additional police superintendent, Berhampur, Shantanu Kumar Das