Kerala policemen investigate documents at Stewart School in Cuttack on Friday. Picture by Badrika Nath Das

Bhubaneswar/Cuttack, March 15: The documents produced by Raghav Rajan, believed to be rape convict Bitihotra Mohanty alias Bitti, for getting a job in State Bank of Travancore, Thiruvanthapuram, were forged, police said today.

A four-member Kerala police team, which had made investigations in the schools and colleges in Cuttack and Bhubaneswar where Bitti, 30, son of former Odisha director-general of police Bidya Bhusan Mohanty, studied, today found out the forgery.

This coincided with the police tallying his fingerprints in Jaipur central jail, Rajasthan, which proved beyond doubt that Rajan, indeed, was Bitti, who had been absconding since 2006 after being convicted for raping a German girl.

An anonymous letter to the bank authorities blew the lid on the man suspected to be Bitti. Kerala police today verified the educational certificates and other documents produced by Rajan with the original records of Stewart School and Christ College in Cuttack.

Inspector of Kannur police station Joshy Jose, who is heading the team, said: “It was evident that Raghav Rajan did not exist. The documents submitted by Raghav were actually issued to Bittihotra Mohanty. It is clear that Bittihotra Mohanty is Raghav Rajan and had forged the documents to get the job.”

He said index number — mentioned in the statement of marks and ICSE certificate issued to Bittihotra after completion of his Class X board exams from Stewart School — matched with the certificate produced by Raghav to get the job. Similar is the case with other certificates that Bitti had received after completing his Plus Two degree from Christ College. Bitti had graduated from Christ College in 2011 and secured a second division.

Stewart School authorities, on the other hand, said Bittihotra had taken admission in the school on June 9, 1988, and completed his Class X from the school in 1999. “Today, Kerala police verified the records of Bittihotra Mohanty, who is a former student of the school. Our records clearly say that no student in the name of Raghav Rajan studied here,” said Stewart School principal Asha. M. Das.

The team also visited the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) and confirmed after verification of documents that the BTech certificate seized from Raghav was fake. It had been issued in the name of Bitti Mohanty.

Documents were verified in the vice-chancellor’s office in the presence of controller of examination of the university K.G. Mishra. “We did not find any document in the name of Raghav Rajan here. The certificates he had produced were found to be forged as they originally belonged to Bitti Mohanty,” said Jose. He made it clear that there was no involvement of the institution in the forgery.

Mishra said the team had verified the certificate’s serial number and the year mentioned on it. “We did not find the name Raghav Rajan. The serial number showed that the certificates belonged to Bitti,” said Mishra, adding that the policemen did not seize any documents. He studied BTech in computer science trade in KIIT between 2001 and 2005.