Jaipur police to seek custody of Bitti

The Rajasthan Police will tomorrow seek the custody of Bitti Mohanty, facing a seven-year jail term for raping a German woman in 2006, who was arrested here after absconding for nearly seven years by jumping parole.

A team of Rajasthan Police would reach Kannur tomorrow with jail and production warrants, Jaipur Assistant Police Commissioner Biju George Joseph said.

Bitti was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 2006 for raping a 26-year-old German woman at Alwar.

Son of former Odisha DGP B B Mohanty, Bitti had been working as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank in Kannur for the last three years impersonating as 'Raghav Rajan' from Andhra Pradesh.

Bitti has denied that his father helped him jump bail and get a new identity. Police suspect that at least three close relatives were in constant touch with Bitti.

In 2006, Bitti's father had stood surety for his son's return to prison in 15 days. He was given bail on the plea that his mother in Odisha was unwell and wanted to meet him. When Bitti jumped parole, his father was accused of helping him escape.

Bitti has been charged with cheating, forgery and impersonation by Kerala Police. He was remanded to 14-day judicial custody by a magistrate yesterday.

Bitti landed in trouble after the employees of the bank branch at Pazhayangadi grew suspicious of the true identity of their colleague on seeing his photo among pictures of accused in various sex crimes shown by TV channels and those floated on the Internet in the wake of the Delhi gangrape incident.

Bitti was picked up from his local residence on Friday evening and during interrogation revealed his true identity after initially trying to mislead the police.

Police said he has a fake passport, a driver's licence and even an MBA degree certificate from Kannur in the name of Raghav Rajan.

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