Chandigarh:
Former Deputy General of Police (DGP) of Haryana, SPS Rathore, who was found guilty of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, is back in the limelight; this time for his lavish lifestyle. Mr Rathore now owns new Mercedes with number plate 0001.
His wife Abha Rathore had won an auction for the fancy number CH 01 AM 0001 and paid over Rs 9 lakh, the highest bid for any number.
"So far we have auctioned 80 numbers and another 80 remain to be auctioned. So far the highest bid for any number was Rs 9.05 lakh. That was for the CH 01 AM 0001 number. Mrs Rathore has bought this number for a Mercedes car," said Kavle Parashuram, SDM Registering and Licensing Authority of Chandigarh.
Last year, there was shock and anger after the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) restored the pension of Mr Rathore.
The Centre had stopped Mr Rathore's pension in June 2010 after a CBI court in Chandigarh had, in December 2009, found him guilty and sentenced him to six years of rigorous imprisonment for molesting the 14-year-old tennis player on August 12, 1990. The girl had committed suicide three years later.