The Supreme Court on Friday granted conditional bail to former Odisha DG of Home Guards and Fire Service Bidya Bhusan Mohanty’s son Bittihotra alias Bitti Mohanty in the German woman rape case.
Bitti was granted bail on a surety deposit amount of Rs 2.50 lakh. The apex court directed him to deposit his passport with police. Besides, he was asked to appear at the Cantonment police station in Cuttack every first week of the month.
Bitti is currently lodged in the Jaipur Central Jail in Rajasthan since his arrest in 2013. He had been arrested from Kannur in Kerala on March 9, 2013.
Bitti, a tech student, was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment for allegedly raping a German woman tourist in Rajasthan in 2006. He was convicted by a Fast Track Court in 2006.
He had been absconding after being released on parole to meet his ailing mother. later, he was arrested from Kerala where he was working at a bank with a disguised name.