Police take Dhalasamanta-brothers on remand for second time

The Commissionerate police took the two arrested Dhalasamanta brothers on remand for the second time today.
A lower court here allowed the police to take the brothers on a five-day remand as against the plea for ten days.
Appearing for the brothers in the court, their lawyer Soura Chandra Mohapatra objected to the fresh remand plea of the police alleging that the brothers were being treated as convicts.
"We objected to the remand plea as the police have kept everybody in dark, including the court, about the progress they have made so far in the investigation," Mohapatra said.
A senior police officer, however, indicated that the investigating officers have covered large grounds during the first phase of seven-day remand in detecting the two-year old case of kidnap and murder for which the brothers were arrested.

The officer further indicated that if need be, the arrested brothers would be subjected to Polygraph test.

Entangled in about two dozen criminal cases, the two brothers - Sushil and Sushant - were arrested on January 29 in connection with the kidnap and murder case of one Dipu Mallick, who was the prime accused of a double murder case under Chauliaganj police station.
Claiming to have seized large sums of money and a cache of arms and ammunition from the houses and offices of the Dhalasamantas located in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, the police had said they have seized a few more arms and ammunition from their rented house in Visakhapatnam.

The police had also claimed to have retrieved the driving licence and a photograph of the missing Dipu Mallick from the Dhalasamanta brothers' Visakhapatnam house.