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Bitti at Mathura railway station on Thursday. (PTI)
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Jaipur, March 14: Rape convict Bitti Mohanty arrived in Alwar today and police are expected to start for Jaipur with him late in the night to ascertain his identity further.
Although he had already been identified by the Rajasthan police by certain birthmarks four days after his arrest in Kerala’s Kannur, the cops would like to verify his fingerprints against those recorded when the rape case was filed. They might even go for a DNA test, police sources said.
Bitti is the son of retired Odisha IPS officer B.B. Mohanty, who has been unreachable since the arrest last week.
Jaipur additional commissioner of police Biju G. Joseph told The Telegraph that Kerala and Rajasthan police would question Bitti and verify various documents related to the case.
The Rajasthan police team headed by sub-inspector Hemender Singh, who had arrested Bitti in March 2006 after a German tourist was raped in Alwar, identified him in Kerala on the basis of a scar on one of his legs. The Kerala police had wanted more “scientific” evidence like blood reports to identify Bitti but were told that the Rajasthan force had not taken such data when he was in their custody.
A six-member police team from Kerala had accompanied Bitti through the two-day journey. They reached at Alwar around 6.15pm. Eyewitnesses said Bitti looked calm and composed but a little tired when he alighted from a train from Mathura in the absence of a direct railway connection between Kerala and Alwar.
The now 30-year-old Bitti had jumped parole from Jaipur central jail in 2006 soon after he was convicted of raping the fellow German research student. Since then he had been living as Raghav Rajan.
The special investigation team probing the Bitti case has apparently “stumbled” on evidence that will throw light on the real identity of the man arrested by Kerala police.
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