A lower court here on Thursday framed charges for alleged offences of cheating, forgery and criminal conspiracy against the gangster Dhalsamant brothers Sushant and Sushil. A judicial magistrate (first class) court also on the day framed charges against the brothers in another case for alleged offence under the Bihar and Odisha Excise Act for keeping huge quantities of liquor in their house.
The brothers, however, pleaded not guilty in any of these offences and sought to face the trial in the cases shifting the onus now on the prosecution to prove in the court that they are guilty of the charges levelled against them. Trials in these two cases are likely to begin from June 22, informed the brothers’ counsel Soura Chandra Mohapatra.
Both the brothers were produced in the court on the day after they were brought from their respective jails. While the younger brother Sushil travelled here from the Baleswar district jail, Sushant was brought here from the Jharpada jail in Bhubaneswar.
The charges were framed against the gangster brothers for procuring fake driving licenses and other documents reportedly seized by the city police from their rented house in Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh.
While the city police have slapped at least 19 cases against the brothers this year, chargesheets in 17 of them, including a murder case have already been submitted in the court.
Chargesheets in another case of murder and tender fixing against the brothers are yet to be filed.