BHUBANESWAR: Bittihotra Mohanty, who was convicted for raping a German nationwide in Alwar, Rajasthan, in 2006, died at AIIMS Bhubaneswar on Monday.
Son of former Odisha director normal (dwelling guards) Bidya Bhusan Mohanty, the 41-year-old Bitti was present process remedy for abdomen most cancers.
Bitti had been granted bail by the Supreme Court docket (SC) on March 31, 2017, in reference to the rape case.However on June 5 this yr, he was requested to give up earlier than the police following the brand new Rajasthan govt’s zero tolerance coverage for crime in opposition to girls. His most cancers was recognized on October 3, 2023. “Bittihotra was beneath remedy for abdomen most cancers. He had acquired chemotherapy and was being monitored. Whereas present process remedy, he died on Sunday evening,” stated AIIMS Bhubaneswar superintendent Dillip Parida.
Bitti’s mother and father had moved the SC on the bottom of his most cancers remedy to grant him aid. However the apex court docket had rejected the plea following which he was being handled beneath judicial custody. Household sources stated he first acquired chemotherapy at SCB Medical School and Hospital, Cuttack beneath police custody after which was shifted to AIIMS Bhubaneswar in June.
Bitti, then 25, was sentenced to seven years in jail by a fast-track court docket in Alwar within the rape case in 21 days. Rajasthan excessive court docket had upheld the decrease court docket’s judgment. Bitti had been granted a 14-day parole in November 2006. However he jumped parole and was absconding until he was re-arrested from Kerala’s Kannur in March 2013, the place he had acquired a job in a financial institution beneath a pretend identification as Raghav Rajan. By producing pretend paperwork, he had managed to seem for an examination and acquired the job. Following his re-arrest, a decrease court docket in Rajasthan sentenced Bitti to 3 extra months in jail.
In Might, the apex court docket rejected Bitti’s plea for early launch and as an alternative requested him to give up within the Choudwar court docket, Cuttack.
Bitti had surrendered as per the court docket order however he did not go to jail as his most cancers was in a complicated stage and he was present process chemotherapy and radiation remedy, his members of the family stated.
