NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Friday permitted Biti Hotra Mohanti, son of former Odisha DGP and convicted and sentenced to seven years imprisonment for sexually assaulting a German tourist at Alwar in 2006, to surrender at Cuttack in Odisha instead of a jail in Rajasthan.
A vacation bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Arvind Kumar permitted the convict, who had absco-nded in Nov 2006 while on parole on the ground of his mother’s illness and had started living assuming a pseudonym, claimed through his counsel Nakul Divan that he is suffering from stage-4 cancer and that he may not get treatment in Rajasthan jail.
As the Supreme Court bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Karol had on April 4 dismissed Mohanti’s appeal against conviction and ordered him to su-rrender to serve the remaining sentence, he was to report back to a jail in Rajasthan on June 4. Divan pleaded for more time to surrender citing the expensive cancer treatment .
Rajasthan counsel Shiv Mangal Singh told the bench that the Rajasthan jail is equipped to provide adequate treatment. However, he suggested that Mohanti could apply to the Directorate of Prison for transfer .
While allowing Mohanti to surrender at central jail, Cuttack on medical grounds, the bench asked the convict to apply for transfer from a Rajasthan jail to a jail in Odisha. If the authorities rejected his plea, then he would have to be taken to Rajasthan jail, the bench said.
A vacation bench of Justices Sanjay Karol and Arvind Kumar permitted the convict, who had absco-nded in Nov 2006 while on parole on the ground of his mother’s illness and had started living assuming a pseudonym, claimed through his counsel Nakul Divan that he is suffering from stage-4 cancer and that he may not get treatment in Rajasthan jail.
As the Supreme Court bench of Justices J K Maheshwari and Karol had on April 4 dismissed Mohanti’s appeal against conviction and ordered him to su-rrender to serve the remaining sentence, he was to report back to a jail in Rajasthan on June 4. Divan pleaded for more time to surrender citing the expensive cancer treatment .
Rajasthan counsel Shiv Mangal Singh told the bench that the Rajasthan jail is equipped to provide adequate treatment. However, he suggested that Mohanti could apply to the Directorate of Prison for transfer .
While allowing Mohanti to surrender at central jail, Cuttack on medical grounds, the bench asked the convict to apply for transfer from a Rajasthan jail to a jail in Odisha. If the authorities rejected his plea, then he would have to be taken to Rajasthan jail, the bench said.