New Delhi: The Home Ministry is likely to move court against the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order restoring the pension of disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore who was convicted in Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. The Home Ministry was "surprised" over the CAT order and preparing the ground to challenge it within a very short span of time, official sources said. A Division Bench of the CAT headed by Justice...
08:11 PM, Dec 21, 2011
Chandigarh: The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) bench in Chandigarh has ordered restoration of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore's pension, which was stopped after his conviction in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. Sixty-nine-year-old Rathore was awarded six months' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 1,000 by the Chandigarh CBI court in December 2009 for molesting the 14-year-old tennis player on August 12, 1990. The girl committed suicide three years later. A division...
10:09 AM, Dec 17, 2011
Chandigarh: In a new twist to the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, a witness has alleged that the CBI misquoted him in its closure report that absolved the police of charges of harassing Ruchika's brother. Vijay Dheer, a neighbour of the Girhotras in sector - 6, Panchkula said the CBI ignored his statement despite he having explicitly told them that he saw Ashu Girhotra being paraded semi naked in front of...
10:59 PM, Dec 21, 2010
Chandigarh: In a new twist to Ruchika Girhotra molestation case a witness has claimed that the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has misquoted him. The CBI closure report in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case says shopkeepers and neighbours of Girhotras were examined and the witnesses said nothing about Ashu Girhotra being paraded half-naked in front of his house. Now a witness and Girhotras neighbour, Vijay Dheer, has comes forward and...
05:14 PM, Dec 21, 2010
New Delhi: The CBI is set to file a status report on its probe against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathode on Tuesday in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, in the Ruchika Girhotra case. The report is in connection with a PIL seeking a fresh case against Rathore charging him with abetment of suicide of child. The bench was hearing Rathode's plea seeking quashing of FIR accusing him of abetment...
07:53 AM, Dec 21, 2010
It was a huge setback for Ruchika Girhotra's family after SPS Rathore, the man convicted for molesting her 20 years ago, got bail on Thursday. The CBI has also dropped two cases against Rathore due to lack of evidence. Ruchika's father spoke exclusively to CNN-IBN and said that the system must change anf guilty given strict punishment. "It took us 10 years and we succeeded in lodging the FIR and ...
09:49 AM, Nov 12, 2010
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the CBI and Aradhna Prakash's father Anand Prakash on the appeal filed by former Haryana Director General of Police SPS Rathore challenging his conviction and 18-month sentence in Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. A bench of Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan issued notice to the CBI and Prakash asking them to explain as to why the bail should...
01:37 PM, Oct 01, 2010
Chandigarh: Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore would have to undergo his 18-month prison term with the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday dismissing his plea challenging the sentence awarded to him for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra about 20 years back. Justice Jatinder Chauhan also dismissed a petition by 68-year-old Rathore, who is undergoing the sentence in high-security Burial Jail here since May 25, seeking release on probation. The Sessions...
04:06 PM, Sep 01, 2010
Chandigarh: Former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore, convicted for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra and currently lodged at the Burail jail, has applied for nearly two weeks parole for looking after crops in his farmhouses, jail officials said here on Friday. Rathore, 68, was sentenced to 18 months rigorous imprisonment by the district and sessions court of Chandigarh after being convicted for molesting the teenager in 1990. She committed suicide three...
02:20 PM, Aug 27, 2010
The two FIRs had been registered by the CBI in January this year. ...
02:41 PM, Jul 19, 2010
Ruchika Girhotra had committed suicide on August 12, 1990, after being molested by Rathore for three years. ...
05:42 PM, Jul 16, 2010
Disgraced former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore, in jail for molesting Ruchika Girhotra, will get no pension. ...
06:43 PM, Jun 30, 2010
New Delhi: A Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) panel has found Chandigarh's Sacred Heart School guilty of violating a series of rules by expelling Ruchika Girhotra. The CBSE expert committee has found that the school violated the rules and procedures while expelling Ruchika from the school on the ground that she did not pay the school fees. Sources tell CNN-IBN that the panel has recommended strict action against the...
09:40 AM, May 30, 2010
The former Haryana DGP is currently serving 18-month sentence in Ruchika Girhotra molestation case. ...
03:41 PM, May 28, 2010
Former Haryana police officer convicted of molestation. ...
02:28 PM, May 26, 2010
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