Did love affair betray German rape convict Bitti Mohanty?

Speculation in this regard has been doing the rounds even as the police today did not want to confirm or deny reports that suggested this possibility, saying this was not the focus of their investigation now underway.

Bitti, who secured job in a public sector bank here, reportedly had an affair with a woman who was part of the same batch of probationary officers recruited by the public sector bank.

Initially, the affair appeared to have gone on smoothly, but when it reached a stage where they could think of becoming life partners, Bitti apparently wanted to wriggle out fearing that it would have adverse consequences for him, according to

reports.

However, the girl, working in a different branch, is reported to have remained firm and informed her kin about the desire to marry him. Though her parents sought to dissuade her, she stuck to her stand.

It was during the time when the parents were making enquiries about him, that his picture was flashed on a TV channel in the wake of the Delhi gangrape incident as one of the culprits who had been absconding after committing crimes against women.

The close resemblance of the TV image with Bitti, who was living here as `Raghav Rajan' from Andhra Pradesh, made them suspicious about his real identity. The woman also started having

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