Rajasthan police to seek custody of Bitti Mohanty

The Rajasthan police may have to wait to take custody of rapist Bitti Mohanty as he is in judicial custody and the Kerala police want to question him, police said on Sunday.Kerala's Additional Director General of Police N Shankar Reddy told IANS that they had sought police custody of Bitti Mohanty from the court which remanded him to 14 days' judicial custody on Saturday. "Bitti Mohanty's crime in Kerala is that he used forged documents. He studied in a college here and then got a job in the State Bank of Travancore as a probationary officer using the alias Raghav Raj from Andhra Pradesh. The Rajasthan police can take him only after we complete our investigation. This would be decided by the court here," Reddy said.The Kerala police confirmed Bitti Mohanty's arrest on Saturday. He is the son of B B Mohanty, a former Director General of Police in Odisha. Bitti Mohanty was sentenced to seven years imprisonment in 2006 for raping a 26-year-old German woman in Alwar. He jumped parole the same year and had been on the run ever since.B B Mohanty was accused of aiding his son's escape and was suspended but later reinstated. He retired in 2012.Sub-inspector M Anil, who arrested Mohanty in Kannur in Kerala, said that initially he denied he was Bitti Mohanty but later accepted his true identity.