Rajasthan police arrives in Orissa to interrogate Bitti's father

By Binita Jaiswal

Bhubaneswar, Jan. 31: A three-member senior police official team from Rajasthan reached Cuttack on Wednesday and submitted papers in Orissa High Court relating to the alleged hands of senior police officer B.B. Mohanty in the disappearance of his rape convict son Bitti Hotra Mohanty.

Bitti, son of director general (home guards and fire service) B.B. Mohanty, has been missing ever since jumping his 14-day parole in December 4.

Jaipur additional superintendent of police Rajesh Singh accompanied by two senior officers went to the advocate general's office in the high court premises and discussed about the case with senior government lawyers.

The Rajasthan police team is said to be staying in Cuttack till February 5. During it stay, the team, sources said, will interrogate Bitti's father and psychiatrist Gopal Mohapatra, a Cuttack-based doctor, who treated the convict during his parole.

The Lalkothi police station had sent the first legal notice to Mr Mohanty on January 22 asking him to personally report on January 27. Then it sent the second notice asking him to appear by January 31 in connection with the disappearance of his son Biti, who jumped parole last month after being convicted in the German woman rape case.

Rajasthan's Lalkothi police station has registered a case against Mohanty senior on January 10 accusing him of helping his son Biti to flee on parole and evade re-arrest. To avoid arrest, the DGP Mr Mohanty went to high court and obtained an anticipatory bail from til Februay 5.

Meanwhile, the DGP's advocate Debashis Panda on Wednesday said the Rajasthan police had no right to summon his client as he did not live under the jurisdiction of Lalkothi police station. He also denied that there was any possibility of Mr Mohanty appearing before the Lalkothi police.