Molestation Cases

Ruchika Girhotra's family withdraws charges

Chandigarh: The family of Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide after being molested by former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, has raised no objection to CBI's closure reports dropping torture charges against the cop.

The reports filed by the investigating agency say there's no evidence to prove that Ruchika' brother Ashu Girhotra was tortured while in police custody or that the signatures of her father, S C Girhotra, had been forged on the victim's post-mortem report.

The closure reports, filed by the agency in 2010 in these two cases, were accepted by the CBI Court in Panchkula, Haryana, on Friday. Appearing before the Panchkula court, SC Girhotra and his son Ashu raised no objection to the CBI move.

Ashu had alleged that a false case of auto theft was registered against him after the molestation incident at the behest of Rathore, who was then a IG rank officer, and the Haryana police had tortured him. However, the CBI in its report had maintained that there was no evidence to back the charge....more

02:16 PM, Jun 02, 2012

Ex-DGP who molested Ruchika to get pension

by Press Trust of India

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

Rathore Case: CBI to submit status report

by CNN-IBN

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

Ruchika's father angry as Rathore get bail

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

HC dismisses Rathore's appeal in Ruchika case

by Press Trust Of India

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