Continuing their investigation on the alleged twin murder of 2013, in which two of the estranged associates of mafia Dhalsamant brothers were brutally murdered, the Commissionerate Police on Wednesday took an associate of the brothers, Arif Khan, to the murder spot at a farmhouse at Athagarh, 20 km from here.
Khan (30), who was working as a sharpshooter for the brothers, was taken on a five-day remand by the policeon Tuesday. It is alleged that the D brothers along with some of their 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 Sudhir Choudhury, an associate of the D brothers, who was arrested 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 JP Das granted bail to Choudhury on a bail bond of two sureties of `20,000 each. He was asked not to go out of the State without prior permission of the IO and not to influence the witnesses.