ByP Sudhakaran, TNN | Mar 9, 2013,

Bitti Mohanty, missing rape convict, arrested in Kerala

Bitti Mohanty, missing rape convict, arrested in Kerala
KANNUR: Bitti Mohanty, high profile criminal and son of former DGP of Odisha Bidya Bhushan Mohanty, who was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for raping a German tourist at Alwar in Rajasthan has been nabbed fromKannur district.

According to police sources, Bitty was nabbed from Pazhayangadi in the district by a special police team led by Kannur SP Rahul R Nair on Friday night after getting the information that he was working in a bank under the police station limits.

Police said he was working in Kannur for the last one year in a fake identity and the arrest was made on secret information that he was in the district.

The criminal, who was charged with raping a German national on 21 March 2006, was convicted for seven years imprisonment on 12 April 2006. However, on 20 November 2006, he got 15 days parole to meet his mother at Cuttack and had been absconding ever since.

Following the allegations that B B Mohanty helped his son to escape, he was arrested and also suspended, and later he was reinstated in service.

Police said Bitti Mohanty will be produced before a local court in Thaliparamba in the evening after a detailed interrogation in the SP’s office.