Cuttack, July 8: Bitihotra Mahanti alias Bitti, charged with raping a German national in 2006, plans to study law and engage himself in social service. He is now out on bail.

Bitti, who was released after the Supreme Court granted him regular bail, will have to report to Cantonment police station every month.

Speaking to the media today, the son of retired IPS officer Bidya Bhusan Mahanti said: "I want to practise law to provide legal aid to people, especially the poor."

Bitti was charged with raping a German national on March 21, 2006. The two were staying in a hotel in Alwar, Rajasthan, where they were holidaying. He was convicted on April 12, 2006.

"My case was one of the quickest trials conducted by a fast-track court. I didn't get justice as the trial was completed without even waiting for the forensic report," he said. "It was done to support tourism as it involved a German tourist."

The fast-track court sentenced Bitti to seven years imprisonment. While serving his term in a Jaipur jail, he was granted a 15-day parole after he claimed that his grandmother was ill. But Bitti, a BTech in computer science, disappeared after he was released on November 20, 2006. He changed his look and started living in Kerala under a fake identity. He even managed to get a job at State Bank of Travancore using forged documents and the fake identity of Raghav Rajan. Rajasthan police arrested him on March 9, 2013 from Kannur, where he had stayed all these years. He had since been lodged in Jaipur jail.

Bitti had moved Rajasthan High Court that upheld the fast-track court order in 2016, before moving the Supreme Court. On March 31, the apex court granted him bail while ordering him to surrender his passport, furnish a bail bond of Rs 2.5 lakh before the trial court and appear before Cantonment police station in Cuttack in the first week of every month. He was released on Thursday.