Continuing its investigations in the alleged twin murder case of 2013, the Commissionerate police on Wednesday took an associate of the mafia Dhalasamanta brothers, Arif Khan, to the murder spot at a farm house at Athagarh, about 20 kms from here.
Arif Khan, who was working as a sharpshooter for the brothers, was taken on a five-day remand by the police on Tuesday.
Khan (30) was arrested from a location in Tamil Nadu earlier this month.
It is alleged that the mafia brothers along with some of his associates had lynched to death two of their former associates — Deepu Mallick and Om Prakash Swain -- at the farmhouse in November 2013.
Meanwhile, the Orissa High Court on the day granted bail to one Sudhir Choudhury, an associate of the Dhalasamanta brothers, who was arrested by the city police on February 26. Sudhir was working as a project coordinator of a construction company and was booked for having alleged business links with the mafia brothers. Justice J. P. Das of the High Court granted bail to Choudhury on a bond of two sureties of Rs.20,000 each. He has been asked not to go out of the State without prior permission of the IO and not to influence the witnesses.
