Kannur: A Sessions Court in Kannur on Friday ordered DNA test on Bitti Mohanty to obtain scientific proof for establishing his identity following his arrest in March this year after being on the run for several years. Bitti remained absconding by jumping bail following his conviction for raping of a German woman at Alwar in Jaipur.
Additional Sessions Judge KV Jayakumar issued the order on Friday on Kerala Police's plea seeking permission of the test to obtain scientific proof for establishing Bitti's identity, who had been impersonating here as Raghav Rajan.
Earlier, a magistrate court at Payannur in the district had rejected the police plea for DNA test. Bitti, son of former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, had been living in Kannur for last two years as Raghav Rajan and had obtained a bank job before he was arrested on March 9 by the Kerala Police.
Bitti was charged with impersonation, cheating and forgery. After his arrest, a police team was sent to Odisha to question Bitti's father and he had subsequently identified his son through photographs shown to him. After jumping bail, Bitti had spent few months in Puttaparthi, where he had enrolled as student in a private institution in Kannur allegedly using forged documents, before obtaining a bank job....
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11:41 PM, May 17, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Tainted pacer S Sreesanth, arrested in spot-fixing allegation case, was on Friday dropped from the advertisement for the state run Kerala Lottery. Sreesanth, who appeared in the advertisement for 'Karunya Lottery', was removed from the celebrities advertisement panel, State Lottery Directorate officials said in Thiruvananthapuram. The Rajasthan Royal IPL team player along with two of his teammates were arrested by Delhi police on Thursday for alleged spot fixing in...
05:29 PM, May 17, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will address a rally in Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday in connection with the culmination of the Kerala Yatra, led by Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee president Ramesh Chennithala. Senior Congress leaders including Defence Minister AK Antony and Chief Minister Oommen Chandy would also address the concluding session of the Yatra, which began from Hosangadi near Manjeswaram in Kasaragod on April 18, Chennithala told reporters. The yatra,...
04:21 PM, May 17, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: A man in Thiruvananthapuram is on a mission to ensure the poor do not go hungry. Feeding over a 100 people every day for the past 30 years, Suryalayam is known as the messiah of the hungry. Every morning in a small restaurant on the outskirts of Thiruvananthapuram, a 100 meals are cooked, packed and then handed over to Suryalayam Raveendran. He then takes off on his bike looking...
02:32 PM, May 17, 2013
Kochi: As more details pour in about the IPL 6 spot-fixing probe, there is shock and dismay among cricket fans, especially in Kochi. The fans still can't believe that their boy, S Sreesanth, is involved. Sreesanth, the man who was once Kerala's pride, may have let his team, his state and his profession down. But his family believes the troubled cricketer is innocent. In the wake of the spot-fixing scandal,...
12:48 PM, May 17, 2013
Monsoon rains may arrive on the southern coast around June 3, the weather office said on Wednesday, a late debut that will raise fears any revival for drought-hit tracts of southern and western farmland could be delayed. The rains, which run from June to September, are vital for the 55 per cent of farmland that is without irrigation in India, one of the world's largest producers and consumers of food....
07:22 PM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram: The long-delayed sacking from the CPI-M of three staff members of Kerala's Leader of Opposition VS Achuthanandan was effected on Sunday at the two-day politburo and central committee meeting of the party in New Delhi. Those booted out were Achuthanandan's press secretary K Balakrishnan, additional private secretary VK Sasidharan and personal assistant A Suresh -- all were found to be leaking classified information about the deliberations of the...
05:13 AM, May 13, 2013
Kochi: A ship rammed a decades old bridge near the Southern Naval Command in Kochi on Saturday. The dredger MV Bhagwati Prem hit the Venduruthy bridge, which has now been closed for traffic. Reports said the ship was carrying out dredging operations for the Navy at the time of the mishap. The bridge reportedly sustained severe damage. ...
11:30 PM, May 11, 2013
New Delhi: In a virtual snub to Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and PCC Chief Ramesh Chennithala, Congress MPs from the state on Tuesday sought senior leader AK Antony's "services" for putting the "house in order" in the party-led UDF government in the state. The MPs made this demand during their interaction with Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi at Parliament House. Party MPs and central ministers from the state, including...
02:25 AM, May 08, 2013
Bangalore: The quality of governance and better leadership has led to southern states surging ahead of their northern counterparts, widening the gap in terms of per capita income and poverty between the south and north, says a study. Per capita incomes in the south (Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala) have risen fast and poverty has declined in recent years and the reason is quality of governance, better leadership...
07:54 PM, May 07, 2013
For the third consecutive year, a girl Haritha V Kumar has topped the prestigious Civil Services Examination 2012. ...
09:45 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Ruchika Katyal, an IPS probationer, has achieved fifth rank in the prestigious Civil Services Examination. Katyal, a 2011-batch Arunachal Pradesh Goa Mizoram Union Territories (AGMUT) cadre probationary of Indian Police Service, is undergoing training at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad. She has been sent as an observer to poll-bound Karnataka. 26-year-old Katyal, who is also a Chartered Accountant, hails from Rohtak in Haryana and has...
08:22 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: For the third consecutive year, a woman has topped the prestigious Civil Services Examination 2012. Haritha V Kumar, a probationer of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) 2011 batch, has made it to the top slot of the coveted exam, according to the results declared on Friday by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The top position in General, Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) have...
08:01 AM, May 04, 2013
New Delhi: Haritha V Kumar, who emerged topper in the All-India Civil Services Examination, initially did not believe it was true as she thought her friends had played a prank. "I did not believe that I got the first rank. My friends told me that I am the topper but I refused to believe. They dragged me and showed it to me on Internet and then only I believed them,"...
10:52 PM, May 03, 2013
New Delhi: Keralites have outshone others in the UPSC civil services examination 2012. Three of the top four belong to the state, including the top two. The top 50 has eight candidates from the state. Haritha V Kumar (Roll No. 075502) from Thiruvananthapuram took the top position. This is after a gap of 20 years that a Keralite has notched the top rank. This was the B.Tech graduate's fourth attempt....
06:13 PM, May 03, 2013
Kolkata: Waking up to the threats and consequences of high rate of tobacco consumption in the population, the West Bengal government has imposed a ban on the manufacture, sale of gutka, pan masala or any other product containing tobacco or Nicotine. The ban comes into effect on Wednesday till next one year. Madhya Pradesh took the first step followed by Kerala and Bihar. Maharashtra banned both gutka and pan masala....
06:06 AM, May 01, 2013
Dubai: A 35-year-old Indian was allegedly stabbed by one of his bosses in Bahrain salesman as he tried to take back his passport ahead of a planned holiday. Radhakrishnan Thankappan Nair from Kerala suffered injuries to his left hand and shoulder and remains in the Intensive Care Unit at Salmaniya Medical Complex. The man had gone to collect his passport but was told he would only be given it, on...
08:11 AM, Apr 30, 2013
Thrissur: The father of a nine year-old boy, who drove a Ferrari F430 recently with his five-year-brother along side, causing widespread outrage, was arrested on Monday and released on bail. Police sources said Mohammed Nisham was arrested by Peramangalam police here, which is investigating the case. He came with the vehicle and was arrested. Since it was a bailable offence, he was granted bail on furnishing two surities of Rs...
07:50 PM, Apr 29, 2013
New Delhi: Charges have been filed against a man who allowed his 9-year-old son to drive his Ferrari, Kerala Police said on Monday. Mohammed Nisham was charged with endangering the life of a child and allowing a minor to drive, said Inspector MV Verghese. Nisham's wife filmed the boy driving the sports car on his ninth birthday two weeks ago, with his 7-year-old brother in the passenger seat. The video...
02:16 PM, Apr 29, 2013
Thiruvananthapuram: The pro-CPI(M) youth outfit Democratic Youth Federation of India would launch a campaign to "uphold secular culture" in Kerala from April 30 to May 8. In a statement, DYFI state president M Swaraj and secretary TV Rajesh said the organisation would hold meetings across the state at the grassroot level. The aim of the campaign is to "uphold secular culture and isolate religious terrorism," the statement said. The UDF...
12:03 PM, Apr 29, 2013
