Cuttack, Feb 20: Commissionerate Police Friday detained five more persons for links with the dreaded gangsters Dhalsamant brothers.
The five persons detained were associates of D-brothers or their business partners, police sources said adding these persons supervised the sand mining and tender fixing activities.
Criminal cases are also pending against these persons, they said.
Meanwhile, interrogation of D-brothers during the third phase of their remand entered the third day today. Sources claimed that more and more illegal activities carried out by D-brothers are coming to fore while more people are coming forward and breaking their silence against the atrocities of the dreaded criminal duo.
Police have also got information about the D-brothers’ involvement in the murder of dreaded criminal Sagar Panda in Kissannagar, Cuttack in 2012.