Cuttack, Feb. 1: Criminal siblings Sushil Dhal Samant and his elder brother Sushant are spilling the beans on their lifestyle and business plans but police are yet to make much headway in the case that led to their arrest.
The latest confession of Sushil to the police is that his business ambition included setting up of a multi-specialty hospital in Bhubaneswar.
During investigations, the Dhal brothers told the police about investments made in a pharmaceutical company. Further probe on the investment led Sushil to divulge that the pharmaceutical company was planning to come up with a multi-specialty hospital in Bhubaneswar, the police said today.
While Sushil spoke about his dream project, his elder sibling Sushant has told the police that he ran a successful transport business in Visakhapatnam. A huge amount of money earned through the business is stacked in banks in Andhra Pradesh, Sushant has told the police.
"Further investigation is on to ascertain the exact amount of money kept in banks in Visakhapatnam," said a police official.
A source in the police, however, said that the Dhal Samant brothers were yet to come up with information about the case that led to their arrest. The police nabbed the two following a complaint by one Aditwa Mallick. The sixty two-year-old Mallick claimed that the Dhal Samant brother had murdered his son Dipu, 25.
"It was on November 12, 2013, when both Sushil and Sushant, along with a few other associates, took my son from home and he never returned," said Mallick. He said that on that fateful day Sushil was driving a black luxurious car, while his brother Sushant sat in the backseat.
"We want adequate security as there is threat to our lives. We want justice as already our family has gone through a lot of mental trauma, harassment and even faced threats from criminals," he said.
Sushil, however, continues to deny the charges against him. "I am innocent and it was a political conspiracy to arrest me," Sushil said after coming out of a local court here today.
In a related development, the police today arrested a businessman and a contractor for their alleged links with the gangster brothers.
The accused have been identified as Rama Das, 50, and Bharat Bhusan Swain, 47. The police have recovered four pistols and 160 rounds of bullets from Das, while Rs 12.44 lakh have been seized from Swain. "We had got specific inputs that a few weapons belonging to the gangster brothers were being transferred from a particular hideout. Subsequently a raid was conducted and the key accused Rama Das was nabbed," said deputy commissioner of police Sanjeev Arora.
Detained
Police today detained Bangladeshi-national Seikh Abdullah from the Regional Passport Office in Bhubaneswar. Abdullah had obtained a passport from the Bhubaneswar office in November.
One killed
A drunken school bus driver went on a rampage hitting five vehicles at Chandrasekharpur in Bhubaneswar leading to the death of a 30-year-old person identified as Kanchan Nanda.
Kid rescued
Nearly 500 missing children have been rescued under the Operation Smile II launched by Odisha Police in December. A highest 187 children have been rescued from outside the state, against 87 in phase I of the operation carried out last year. Special director general police (crime) B.K. Sharma today said that 110 children were traced from the undivided Andhra Pradesh and 30 from Telangana.
