Kannur: Bitty Mohanty, who was convicted for raping a German national in 2006, has been arrested from Kannur, reports said on Saturday.
He had been on the run for over six years. Bitti Mohanty was charged with raping a German national in his hotel room in Alwar in Rajasthan on March 21, 2006. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment.
According to reports, he was working at a bank in Kannur for the last one year using a fake identity.
While being lodged in a jail in Alwar in Rajasthan, he was released on a 15-day parole on November 20 to see his ailing mother in Cuttack and was absconding since then.