Cuttack: Dreaded ‘Dhalasamanta brothers’ and eight others were acquitted by a court in Odisha’s Cuttack in the sensational Dipu and Om murder case of 2013.
The court of the District and Sessions Judge of Cuttack, acquitted all the accused persons, including Sushant and Sushil Dhalasamanta, known as ‘D-brothers’, due to lack of evidence.
Deepak Mallick alias Dipu and Om Prakash Swain alias Om, former friends of Sushant and Sushil Dhalasamanta, were brutally killed on November 12, 2013.
As per case record, the two were murdered at a farmhouse near Ansupa lake in Athagarh, their bodies were taken to West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand and set ablaze. The remnants were buried to destroy evidence.
Police arrested the gangster brothers in 2016. Despite investigations and court proceedings spanning over a decade, the prosecution failed to present evidence proving their involvement in the murder case.
With the acquittal in the murder case, the two remain convicted in an illegal arms possession case.
Earlier in 2023, the gangster brothers and one of their aides Arif Khan were acquitted by Cuttack district and sessions Judge Court in murder case of wholesale trader of Cuttack Malgodown, Sheikh Farooq.
Farooq was shot dead at his shop in Malgodown on November 12, 2014, for extortion. It was alleged that D-brothers had hired contract killers to eliminate Farooq after the trader refused to pay extortion money of Rs 30 lakh.
