A seven-member special investigation team has been constituted by the Haryana police to investigate two fresh FIRs registered against former director general of police SPS Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. The two complaints were lodged by Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra and brother Aashu, seeking filing of cases against Rathore and other police officials, for slapping false cases against the boy and for 'doctoring' Ruchika's post-mortem report.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court adjourned till September 29 the hearing on two fresh FIRs filed against former Director General of Police SPS Rathore in Ruchika molestation case charging him with serious offences like attempt to murder after the Central Bureau of Investigation again sought more time to file its reply.
Without giving any interim protection, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation for January 18 on disgraced former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore's petitions seeking anticipatory bail in FIRs containing serious criminal charges.
As the Ruchika molestation case fuelled a debate whether there is media hype, the judge who rejected the anticipatory bail of Haryana's former director general of police S P S Rathore said the role and importance of the media "cannot be denied or undermined" though sometimes it "oversteps its limits".
The Haryana government has recommended that the Central Bureau of Investigation take over the probe into the three fresh FIRs, including abetment to suicide charge, filed against disgraced former state director general of police SPS Rathore, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. "The state government made the recommendation to the Centre for transfer of the fresh FIRs to CBI on Tuesday," official sources said.
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The Punjab and Haryana high court has decided to conduct daily hearings from Friday on a revision petition of former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore, who has challenged the session court's verdict sentencing him to an 18-month jail term for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra.
The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday extended the two anticipatory bail applications and a petition demanding cancellation of abetment to suicide charges against former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore, in connection with the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, till January 25.The high court had earlier on January 12 rejected the interim bail plea of Rathore, and asked the Central Bureau of Investigation to file its reply in the case by January 18.
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The Centre on Tuesday said it was contemplating whether to appeal for enhancing punishment for Rathore."There are two points on which we are thinking. The first is to appeal for an enhanced punishment for the accused under Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code (molestation). The second point is whether to start fresh investigations to see whether Rathore and others could be charged for abetment of suicide under Section 305 or 306 of IPC," said Law Minister M Veerappa Moily.
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After fresh first information reports against former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore in the Ruchika molestation case, the National Commission for Women on Wednesday suggested inclusion of charges like abetment to suicide, criminal conspiracy and fabrication of false evidence.
The father and brother of Ruchika Girhotra, who was molested by Haryana's former director general of police SPS Rathore, on Tuesday demanded the registration of fresh FIRs against him and others, in connection with the post mortem proceedings and booking of her brother in false cases.Subash Chander Girhotra and Ashu, father and brother of Ruchika, submitted their complaints to Panchkula Superintendent of Police Maneesh Chaudhary.
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Disgraced former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore was on Friday denied anticipatory bail by a sessions court in Panchkula in connection with two fresh FIRs registered in the Ruchika molestation case levelling serious criminal charges against him.
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The Punjab and Haryana high court on Wednesday sought details from the Haryana government about how disgraced former top police official S P S Rathore was promoted to the rank of director general of police when a complaint of molestation was pending against him.The direction came while hearing a PIL filed by a local advocate seeking a fresh case against Rathore for abetment to teenager Ruchika Girhotra's suicide.
Professor parents of the 29-year-old youth arrested for attacking former Haryana director general of police SPS Rathore on Tuesday said their son was under treatment for depression for the last six months and he was dead against any kind of injustice.
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The family of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide after being molested by former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore, has raised no objection to the Central Bureau of Investigation's closure reports dropping torture charges against the cop.
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