CHANDIGARH: Disgraced former
Haryana DGP SPS Rathore today failed to get any relief from the Punjab and
Haryana High Court which deferred the pronouncement of the verdict on his
revision petition in the Ruchika molestation case to June 29.
Vacation Judge Ajay Tewari, who had deferred the pronouncement of the verdict on
Rathore's plea till today, adjourned the case.
68-year old Rathore's lawyer-wife Abha, her sister Neerja, CBI counsel Ajay
Kaushik, Anand Parkash and Madhu Parkash (parents of Aradhna, the complainant in
the case), and S C Girhotra, father of Ruchika) and battery of media persons
were among those present in the court.
Abha Rathore had filed the review petition on his behalf in the High Court on
May 26 seeking bail, a day after he was sentenced and lodged in the
high-security Burail jail here.
14-year-old Ruchika, a budding tennis player, had committed suicide three years
after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990. A session's court had on May
25 enhanced Rathore's jail term from six months to one-and-a-half years while
allowing the plea of CBI and the Girhotra family.
Rathore was jailed after a session's court had enhanced his prison term to 18
months for molesting the teenager.