Cuttack: A local court on Thursday acquitted dreaded gangsters 'Dhalasamanta brothers' and eight others in 2013 sensational Dipu and Om murder case. 

The District and Sessions Judge Court, Cuttack, acquitted all the accused persons including D-brothers due to lack of evidence.

Deepak Mallick alias Dipu and Om Prakash Swain alias Om, two former friends of Sushant and Sushil Dhalasamanta, known as D-brothers, were brutally killed on November 12, 2013. 

According to reports, the duo was murdered at a farmhouse near Ansupa in Athagarh. Their bodies were taken to West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand and set ablaze. The remnants were buried to erase 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 duo remains convicted in an illegal arms possession case.

Earlier in 2023, the dreaded gangster brothers and one of their aides Arif Khan were acquitted by Cuttack district and sessions Judge Court in a sensational murder of wholesale pulses 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.