24 Apr 2025

The state is in the process of extraditing to Botswana a Mochudi police officer convicted for raping a fellow colleague about two years ago in Mochudi.

 State prosecutor, Ms Seeletso Ookeditse from the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) explained before Mochudi Magistrate’s Court yesterday that the state was in the process of extraditing Katlego Calista Dikeleko to the country.

“The person is on the run and currently in South Africa,” Ms Ookeditse told the court, adding that the extradition process has already begun. “May I request for a mention date in October as it appears that it will take a long time for him to be extradited to Botswana,” she said.

Dikeleko, who has been convicted of raping and robbing a fellow police officer, absconded from attending a court sessions last year in October when he was to appear for judgment.

 He was said to have committed the rape in November 2023 in Mochudi. 

The 31-year-old Dikeleko is alleged to have been violent resulting in the injury of the victim. 

On the second count, he was found to have robbed the victim a Huawei Y7 cellphone valued at P2 000 and cash amounting to P3 000.

In his defence during trial, Dikeleko maintained that the act with his colleague was consensual despite having tied the victim with ropes, adding that they had on the said day, agreed to spice their sexual encounter with bondage, discipline, sadism and masochism (BDSM), an assertion Magistrate Ms Queen Moanga rejected and found him guilty as charged in absentia. ENDS