By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, March 9, 2016: Arms and ammunition made in country’s ordnance factories exclusively for Indian Armed Forces can also land in the hands of dreaded criminals. This was what established on Tuesday when Bhubaneswar-Cuttack Commissioner of Police (CP) Y.B. Khurania said the state-of-the art carbine, a lethal assault machine gun, seized from Dhalsamanta brothers – Sushil Dhalsamanta and Sushanta Dhalsamanta – was manufactured in ordnance factory, Kolkata.

“Forensic tests revealed that the carbine recovered from the possession of Dhalsamanta brothers was e manufactured at Indian Ordnance Factory, Kolkata. We will send a team to Kolkata to investigate further,” Mr Khurania told reporters here.

Official sources said the investigating team will prepare a detailed report on the carbine seized and how they landed in Dhalsamanta brothers’ hands.

Prior to the forensic report, police believed the carbine and a number of guns and pistols seized from the Cuttack residence of the criminal brothers were procured from Uttar Pradesh don Raja Bhaiya alias Raghuraj Pratap Singh, since they had admitted to their links with the goon during interrogation.

“We will soon get to know all the details about the carbine,” Khurania stated.

Defence analysts said since an al-Qaeda in Indian Sub-continent (AQIS) network in Cuttack was recently busted in Cuttack by Delhi police after the arrest of AQIS activist Abdur Rehman, the National Investigation Agency should take no chance to probe how the ordnance factory made weapons landed in the hands of the criminals.

In a related development, former Councillor of Rourkela Ashesa Mohanty alias Bulu, who was detained by the Commissionerate police, on Tuesday, revealed his relationship with Dhalasamant brothers during interrogation at Chauliagnaj police station in Cuttack on Tuesday.

Mohanty said he had come in contact with Sushant Dhalasamant when both were lodged in Rourkela jail in different criminal cases. Later, he was introduced to Sushil, who assisted the former councillor to acquire a tender from Rural Development department, police said.