Biti Mohanty's kin helped him fake identity

KOCHI: Police are probing the active connivance of immediate family members of former Odisha DGP B B Mohanty in helping Biti Mohanty escape from the law for the last six years.
A senior police officer told TOI that three of Biti’s uncles were in constant touch with him ever since he vanished without a trace while on parole. “We have evidence that an uncle and aunt regularly visited him.They were introduced as his parents to neighbours. The details will be handed over to Rajasthan police,’’ he said.
Biti, however, continued to tell police interrogators that his father had no role in this drama and that his family had disowned him after he got embroiled in the rape case. “We can’t take that at face value. What we know for a fact is the help he received from three close kin of his father in helping him find a sanctuary at Puttaparthi. They apparently helped him find a place to stay,’’ sources said.
There appears to have been an astute legal brain behind Biti’s new identity as Raghav Rajan. There is no document, police sources said, that mentions any address or reference that would, even remotely, lead to his kin. Biti’s sole reference has been that of Rama Rao, a retired headmaster, whom he accidentally met at Puttaparthi and could convincingly cheat.
Sources said Rao’s name was also mentioned as reference by Biti while joining SBT. “We are not clear who was introduced to Rao as Rajiv Rajan, his ‘father’. It is for the Rajasthan police to probe that part as the purview of our investigation is only impersonation,’’ sources said.