Mahanti gets bail

Mahanti was sent to judicial custody for two weeks on Thursday by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Rajendra Kumar Bansal who had rejected his bail plea.

The officer8217;s son Bitti was lodged in the same jail before he jumped parole and has been missing since December 2006. Mahanti has been evading police teams from Orissa and Rajasthan since August 24. A Jaipur court had declared the officer an absconder on the charge that he had helped his son jump parole and go into hiding. Bitti was given parole from November 20 to December 4, 2006, following an application pleading that his mother was ill. Bitti was found guilty of raping a German scholar by a court.