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
Panaji: Goa will not be home to the country's first Playboy club with the state government deciding to reject a proposal for opening this facility at Candolim beach amid a controversy that it would promote vulgarism. Bowing to pressure from within ruling BJP against the US-based Playboy club's move to open a branch in the tourist state, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said the application would not be considered...
07:26 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Panaji: Goa will not be home to the country's first Playboy club with the state government deciding to reject a proposal for opening this facility at Candolim beach amid a controversy that it would promote vulgarism. Bowing to pressure from within ruling BJP against the US-based Playboy club's move to open a branch in the tourist state, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar on Monday said the application would not be considered ...
07:16 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Jammu: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Tuesday said his government would continue its efforts to get travel advisories lifted by the US and other countries to attract tourists. "As a tourist state, the growth and development of economy in Jammu and Kashmir is largely associated with successful and productive tourist seasons," Abdullah said. Many countries, including the US, have issued travel advisories to their citizens against visiting...
04:15 AM, Apr 10, 2013
Srinagar: The Dutch national arrested on charges on murdering a Briton inside a houseboat in Srinagar was on Sunday remanded in 10-day police custody by a local court. De-Wit Richard was produced before a magistrate at his official residence by the police, which sought his custody, sources said. The magistrate gave police the custody of Richard for 10 days. Richard was arrested from Qazigund town of south Kashmir on Saturday...
02:59 AM, Apr 08, 2013
A 24-year-old British national was found dead inside a boathouse in Srinagar. Police have arrested the accused for the woman's murder while he was trying to flee after the incident. ...
09:59 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Srinagar: A British tourist was found dead inside a houseboat in the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Saturday after being allegedly molested by another foreign tourist from Netherlands, the police said. The woman was reportedly found in a pool of blood inside her room in the houseboat. The Dutch tourist has been arrested in connection with the murder while he was reportedly trying to flee. The police are now probing...
08:00 AM, Apr 06, 2013
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04:15 AM, Apr 06, 2013
Mumbai: A fatal gangrape in New Delhi didn't deter Germans Carolina De Paolo and Canan Wahner from traveling to India for a six-week tour. The attack was awful, but there is crime everywhere, they figured, and they'd take precautions. Then a man sidled up to Wahner on a train to Goa and ran his hand up her leg a few weeks into the trip. On another train, a different man...
03:48 PM, Apr 04, 2013
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06:25 PM, Mar 26, 2013
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11:30 AM, Mar 20, 2013
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01:43 AM, Mar 19, 2013
Britain has advised its female tourists to be cautious while travelling in India in the wake of the rape of a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh last week. "Our travel advice states that women should use caution if travelling alone in India. Reported cases of sexual assault against women and young girls are increasing; recent sexual attacks against female visitors in tourist areas and cities show that foreign women are...
09:59 PM, Mar 18, 2013
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09:18 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Two days after a group of men allegedly gangraped a tourist from Switzerland and assaulted her husband in Madhya Pradesh, the state's Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta, while calling the incident "unfortunate", said more often than not, "foreign nations fail to follow rules of the state". He added that if the foreigners inform the Assistant Superintendent of Police after entering the state, additional security arrangements could be made for them....
06:06 PM, Mar 17, 2013
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11:24 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Bitti's father former Odisha DGP BB Mohanty is innocent, said Kerala Police after quizzing him in Cuttak on Saturday. A special investigation team of Kerala Police, which is probing impersonation and forgery charges against Bitihotra Mohanty, convicted for raping a German woman, interrogated BB Mohanty at the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police. ...
06:04 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Questions are being raised about the way rape convict Bitti Mohanty was being treated in Alwar where he had been taken earlier. He reportedly spent the night in an air-conditioned room in a guest house instead of the prison. This VIP treatment was reportedly given to him at the expense of the Alwar Police. ...
03:08 PM, Mar 16, 2013
A Russian Soyuz capsule made a "bull's eye" landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan on Saturday, delivering a Russian-American trio from the International Space Station, a day after its originally scheduled touchdown was delayed by foul weather. ...
02:15 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Rape convict Bitti Mohanty's father BB Mohanty spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN saying he will co-operate with the Kerala police. "I will co-operate with the Kerala police. Since the matter is subjudice I will not comment on the case. If Italan marines have refused to speak to the media, why should I? Media is sensationalizing the case," he said. ...
02:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
