Fishermen killing: Italy says marines won't return to India Italian foreign ministry said on Monday that the two marines, who have been charged in India for shooting two Kerala fishermen, will remain in Italy. The Ministry of External Affairs said it has received the communication from Italy and that it will examine it carefully. ...  
10:20 PM, Mar 11, 2013

Rape convict Bitti Mohanty was an exemplary student, says college official

Krishna Kumar, Director of Education of Chinmaya Institute of Technology, where the rape convict Bitti Mohanty received his MBA degree, said Mohanty was an exemplary student and was an affable person. ...
05:10 PM, Mar 11, 2013

Man arrested from Kerala is not Bitti Mohanty, says father Former Odisha DG BB Mohanty has said that the man arrested from Kerala is not his son Bitti Mohanty, who was convicted of raping a German tourist in 2006. Bitti had jumped parole in 2006 after being sentenced to seven years imprisonment and was on the run. On Friday, the Kerala Police claimed to have arrested Bitti, who they said was working at the State Bank of Travancore since June...  
01:23 PM, Mar 11, 2013

Suryanelli gangrape: HC seeks statement on cases against Kurien Kerala High Court on Monday directed the state government to file a statement regarding details of cases filed by the Suryanelli rape victim against Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman PJ Kurien before the magistrate and higher courts. The direction in this regard was issued by a division bench comprising Chief Justice Manjula Chellur and justice Vinod Chandran on a PIL filed by Kamala Sadanandan, General Secretary of Kerala Mahila Sangam, a...  
12:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013

India's biggest shopping mall opens in Kochi
by IANS
Billed as India's biggest shopping mall, the Lulu Shopping Mall was inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in Kochi on Sunday. Built at a cost of over Rs 1,600 crore, the mall is spread over 2.5 million square feet of space and is owned by EMKE group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) businessman MA Yousuf Ali, who hails from Kerala. ...  
11:22 AM, Mar 11, 2013

Rape convict Bitti Mohanty to be produced in court on Monday Former Odisha DG BB Mohanty is under scrutiny for allegedly aiding his son Bitti Mohanty, a rape convict, while he was absconding. Rama Rao, a former headmaster of a school in Puttaparthy, Andhra Pradesh, where Bitti worked under a false name while he was on the run, claims he had a regular visitor who he can identify as BB Mohanty. ...  
10:29 AM, Mar 11, 2013

Bitti Mohanty: Rajasthan Police team to leave for Kerala on Monday
by IANS
A police team from Jaipur will fly to Kerala on Monday to identify and take into custody Bitti Mohanty, who jumped parole in 2006 after being convicted for raping a German woman. ...  
05:17 AM, Mar 11, 2013

Trail of deception: How loopholes in the system helped Mohanty assume new identity

For seven years, rape convict Bitti Mohanty hoodwinked the police. Since he jumped parole, Mohanty, the son of former Orissa DGP BB Mohanty, has remained incommunicado. His arrest in Kerala where he was working in a bank under a false name, highlights how the loopholes in the system helped him assume a completely new identity. ...
09:53 PM, Mar 10, 2013

AP: Bitti Mohanty's stay in Puttaparthi under the scanner, police to help Kerala Police

Rape convict Bitti Mohanti's stay in Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh and how he got MBA degree and a bank's job is also under the scanner. ...
10:56 AM, Mar 10, 2013

Bitti Mohanty sent to judicial custody, Rajasthan Police may seek a transit remand Two days after rape convict Bitti Mohanty was arrested in Kerala, a team of Rajasthan Police officials will reach Kannur by Sunday evening to seek his custody. Bitti was sent to 14 days judicial custody in Kerala. ...  
08:50 AM, Mar 10, 2013

Kerala: Rape convict Bitti Mohanty jailed for 14 days Nearly seven years after he jumped bail while serving a seven-year sentence for raping a German national in Rajasthan, absconder Bitti Mohanty from Odisha was on Saturday arrested by Kerala police and remanded to judicial custody. Son of former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, Bitti had been working as a Probationary Officer in a public sector bank here for the last three years impersonating as "Raghav Raja" from Andhra Pradesh, police...  
07:42 PM, Mar 09, 2013

How did rape convict Bitti Mohanty manage to evade arrest for 7 years? The long arm of the law finally caught up to rape convict Bitti Mohanty. The son of the former Odisha DG BB Mohanty, Bitti, was arrested in Kannur, Kerala, on Saturday, seven years after he was convicted of raping a German national in Jaipur. ...  
07:08 PM, Mar 09, 2013

Bitti Mohanty not entirely at fault, says aunt

Kamini Patnaik, the aunt of Bitti Mohanty, who is convicted of raping a German tourist, said "everyone knew" he was a good man. ...
06:07 PM, Mar 09, 2013

Arrested man is Bitti Mohanty, says Kerala Home Minister

Bitti Mohanty was convicted of raping a German tourist in 2006 and has been absconding since 2006 when he jumped parole. ...
10:32 AM, Mar 09, 2013

Kerala: Bitti Mohanty, convicted of raping a German tourist, arrested Kerala police has arrested Bitti Mohanty, son of former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty in Kannur, Kerala. Bitti has been convicted of raping a German tourist in 2006 and has been absconding since 2006 when he jumped parole. ...  
08:20 AM, Mar 09, 2013

Scared of mingling with women: Cong MP Sudhakaran Known for making controversial comments, Congress MP K Sudhakaran was at it again on International Women's Day on Friday, stating that under the prevailing situation it was difficult for men to move around without being scared of women. ...  
08:25 PM, Mar 08, 2013

India talks: 'No decline in crimes against women'

Women in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, said that if women wanted to see the change they wished to see, they needed to make it happen. ...
05:44 PM, Mar 08, 2013

Kerala minor rape: Culprits identified, says govt The culprits behind the rape of a three-year old girl at Tirur in this district had been identified and would be nabbed very soon, Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan said on Thursday. In a brief interaction with mediapersons, the Home Minister said the police probe into the incident was progressing satisfactorily and that all out efforts are being made to nab the culprits. ...  
06:44 PM, Mar 07, 2013

Kerala: Unidentified men kidnap, rape 3-year-old girl In a horrific incident, a three-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped by some unidentified persons and later abandoned near a building in Tirur, police said on Wednesday. ...  
03:07 AM, Mar 07, 2013

Rajesh Kumar

Life As It Is |

The best of political debates in Kerala, and perhaps India, happen not in television studios or our legislature, but in Karunan's barber shop and Kuttan's ...
01:45 PM, Mar 06, 2013