CHANDIGARH: Disgraced former
Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18-month prison term by a court here in
Ruchika molestation case, on Monday failed to get any relief as the Punjab and
Haryana High Court deferred the hearing on his revision petition seeking bail
till tomorrow.
68-year-old Rathore's lawyer wife 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.
The single vacation bench of Justice Ajay Tewari deferred the case till
tomorrow.
On May 28, High Court Judge, Justice Gurdev Singh had posted the matter for
today on the plea of the CBI counsel that the investigating agency had not
received copy of the review petition.
In her petition, Abha Rathore had alleged that the appellate court had on May 25
passed the order "under media pressure".
She had pleaded that the former DGP was facing "severe health problems".
Rathore was jailed after a sessions court had enhanced his prison term to 18
months for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra--who later committed suicide, 20
years back.