The Cuttack police on Thursday forwarded Arif Khan (30) of the city to court for his alleged involvement in at least three murder cases in association with dreaded mafia Dhalsamant brothers.
The police had earlier arrested Khan from a location in Madurai in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday and brought him here on transit remand on Thursday.
“Arif Khan was working as a sharpshooter for the Dhalsamant gang, During investigations, his involvement was established in the 2013 murder of their (Dhalsamant brothers’ estranged associates Dipu Mallick and Om Prakash Swain and in the 2014 murder of pulses trader Md Farooq,” said Cuttack city DCP Sanjiv Arora.
With this, the number of arrests by the police in the D brothers’ link has gone up to 30, Arora said, adding that more than 20 persons have so far been examined by police under Section 160 of CrPC in connection with all the 17 cases registered against the mafia brothers and their associates ever since their arrests on January 29.
Meanwhile, it is learnt that the city police on the day submitted relevant documents before the Court of SDJM here in connection with the establishment of the identities of Dipu Mallick and Om Swain, whose charred bodies had been disposed of at a location in neighbouring Jharkhand district after they were lynched to death in November 2013.