HAL's security personnel found Arun Kumar Pradhan stealing at least three grinding wheels used for sharpening titanium plates and hiding them inside his clothes on Wednesday, said Puspanjali Mingi, IIC Sunabeda police station.
"The HAL authorities had handed over Pradhan to us and during interrogation he had confessed to the crime. Subsequently he was arrested," the IIC said.
During interrogation Pradhan confessed to running a workshop at Semiliguda near Sunabeda and supplying polished titanium plates to a private company, Mingi said.