Thiruvananthapuram, March 10: Investigators in Kerala are yet to find evidence suggesting that rape convict Bitti Mohanty was in touch with his father B.B. Mohanty, former DGP of Odisha, while he was in hiding. Bitti was arrested from Kannur district in north Kerala yesterday.

“We are examining his telephone records. So far, we have not found anything to link him with his father or family while he was in hiding,” deputy superintendent of police D. Sudarshan, who is probing the case in Kerala, told The Telegraph.

A Rajasthan police team was expected to arrive here on Monday to take Bitti in custody. However, the team has not been able to get train or flight tickets and are now expected to leave tomorrow and reach Kerala late on Tuesday. Jaipur has no direct flight to Kerala and only one train, Marusagar Express, which goes up to Ernakulum.

In Cuttack, reporters waited outside the Mohanty residence throughout the day for a statement from the family. However, no statement could be recorded.

Sources said Bitti was regularly in touch with a person at Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh. “His explanation was that he lived there for three years from 2005. But we are examining the finer details,” Sudarshan said when asked if it was possible that the Anantpur contact may have been a conduit to keep in touch with others.

It also emerged that the State Bank of Travancore in Madayi, a rural outpost in the north Kerala district where Bitti used to work, had received two anonymous letters. It was on the basis of these letters that cops began investigating Bitti’s whereabouts.

The convict, who used to stay at a rented accommodation close to the bank, apparently became alert and shifted to a lodge in Kannur town.

The Odisha police is now waiting for its Rajasthan counterpart to take him so that he can be returned to the prison to serve the seven-year term imposed on him following conviction in the 2006 rape of a German woman.

Sampat Singh, station house officer of Lal Kothi police station in Rajasthan, said: “We are in the process of getting a warrant from the judicial magistrate as Bitti Mohanty has been sent to judicial custody in Kannur, Kerala. We should be able to leave by tomorrow.”

Former Rajasthan High Court judge Panachand Jain said Bitti may face an extension of jail for jumping parole under the Section 224, although his sentencing in the rape case will remain same.