A team of police investigators will arrive in Rajasthan on Thursday with Bitti Mahanti. He was sent to 10-day police custody on Monday. Bitti had jumped parole in 2006 while serving a seven-year sentence in Alwar in Rajasthan on charges of raping a German tourist. ...
06:49 AM, Mar 14, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty was brought to Jaipur on a train on Tuesday evening by Kerala police. Bitti was sent to 10-day police custody on Monday. ...
08:15 PM, Mar 12, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty will be taken by the Rajasthan Police back to Rajasthan on Tuesday. Mohanty was sent to 10-day police custody on Monday. He had jumped parole in 2006 while serving a seven-year sentence in Alwar in Rajasthan on charges of raping a German tourist. ...
09:51 AM, Mar 12, 2013
Former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty, father of rape convict Bitti Mohanty, has been holed up inside his house and has refused to come and speak to the media. Mohanty had denied allegations that he has been helping his son run from the law for the past seven years. ...
11:59 PM, Mar 11, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty was on Monday sent to 10-day police custody after being produced at a local court in Kannur, Kerala. Bitti was sentenced to seven years imprisonment on charges of raping a German tourist whom he had befriended in 2005, in Alwar, Rajasthan. However, he jumped parole in 2006 and was on the run for seven years. On Saturday, the rape convict was arrested in Kerala. ...
03:53 PM, Mar 11, 2013
A 20-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by two sacked personnel of Rajasthan Police Constabulary, police said here. "The girl was with her friend on a motorbike on March 7 when the accused, also on motorcycle, chased and stopped them near Rawatbhata road. ...
01:55 PM, Mar 11, 2013
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
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
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
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
Armed with an arrest warrant, a state police team is heading to Kerala to take custody of Bitti Mohanty, the convict in rape of a German national in Rajasthan who was arrested nearly seven years after jumping bail. ...
11:20 PM, Mar 09, 2013
In 1999, Anjana Mishra, the former wife of an IFS officer in Odisha, was gangraped on the outskirts of Bubaneswar by three local goons. The CBI took the case, but the prime accused was never arrested. While the other two accused were convicted, Anjana believes the inability of the police to apprehend the rape accused and escaped rape convicts like Bitti Mohanty just encourage violent crime against women. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 09, 2013
A visibly-relieved Ashis Nandy on Friday thanked the media and the public for standing by him as he was slammed and criticised for his remarks on Dalits at the Jaipur Literature Festival and said that he will be careful in future as the case was sub-judice. He, however, remarked, that he will voice his ideas "in some other country or within the four walls of my house." ...
12:31 PM, Feb 01, 2013
The Supreme Court will on Friday hear sociologist Ashis Nandy's plea seeking the quashing of an FIR filed against him under the SC/ST Act. The Rajasthan Police booked him under a non-bailable section, which invites upto 10 years in jail. Last week, Nandy had linked corruption to Dalits at the Jaipur Literature Festival kicking up a controversy. ...
09:32 AM, Feb 01, 2013
A team of the Rajasthan Police will question sociologist Ashis Nandy on Thursday over his controversial comments linking Dalits to corruption. But the sociologist, who will appear in the Supreme Court later on Thursday afternoon, will request the apex court that all FIRs filed against him be quashed. Nandy's argument is based on the fact that no offence was mentioned in the FIR. ...
11:25 AM, Jan 31, 2013
Sociologist Ashis Nandy on Tuesday denied receiving any summons from Rajasthan Police and said that he was ready to be jailed for his comment. Earlier, reports came that Rajasthan Police had summoned Nandy for questioning in connection with the controversial remark he made against the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday. ...
03:58 PM, Jan 29, 2013
Rajasthan Police has summoned sociologist Ashis Nandy for questioning in connection with the controversial remark he made against the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday. ...
09:40 AM, Jan 29, 2013
Sociologist Ashis Nandy on Sunday returned to Delhi from Jaipur where he was attending the Literature Festival. Nandy stirred up a controversy on Saturday after he seemingly blamed the Dalits for the corruption menace in the country. Even as he apologised for his remarks and insisted that he had been misquoted, an FIR was filed against him. ...
11:24 AM, Jan 27, 2013
Sociologist and political psychologist Ashis Nandy kicked up a storm at the Jaipur Literature Festival on Saturday when he claimed Dalits and other backward castes are responsible for corruption in the country. Nandy is now facing up to 10 years imprisonment for his controversial remarks, after an FIR was filed against him under the SC/ST Act. ...
09:30 PM, Jan 26, 2013
A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against Ashis Nandy under the SC/ST Act for his offensive remarks against Dalits and other backward castes. The sociologist and political psychologist could face up to 10 years imprisonment, if convicted. ...
07:29 PM, Jan 26, 2013
