After taking him on a six-day remand when the Commissionerate police did not seek any further remand of Arif Khan of the city, the SDJM Court here on Monday remanded him to judicial custody and he was sent to the Choudwar jail. Khan, believed to be a sharpshooter and an associate of the mafia Dhalsamant brothers, was arrested by the police from Tamil Nadu earlier this month.
Khan was booked by the State police in connection with the 2013 murder of two estranged associates Dipu Mallick and Om Swain of the mafia brothers. During the remand, Khan was taken to the spot at a nearby farmhouse, where Mallick and Swain were brutally killed and their bodies were disposed of at a location in Jharkhand.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the Cuttack district administration has cancelled as many as five sand quarries in and around Cuttack city, which were operating in the name of the father of the mafia brothers. Sources said as many as seven sand quarries were in the name of the family and the officials are verifying the details of the remaining two.