Well, I do not think that the hilt is a modern casting...  The nut goes one by screw... 
 
It is definetly no a pulowar wich has a different style of quillons - downturned dragon heads, wich isn't quite the case there, and the pommel of a pulwar would be different, as attached picture. 
 
Rather an around of WWII official issue of some kind...
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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