Teen-molester-cop SPS Rathore gets interim bail

Panchkula: It was a significant victory in court for teen-molester-cop SPS Rathore.

A court has ordered the CBI to give Rathore 4 days' notice when it's ready to arrest the man found guilty of molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra.

The CBI is investigating all new police cases against Rathore, including charges that accuse him of driving the teenager to commit suicide three years after he molested her in Haryana.

Rathore, who retired as Haryana's senior-most police officer in 2002, has asked that the abetment of suicide charge against him be dropped, because in the past, it has been rejected by the Supreme Court.  The government is helping Ruchika's friends and family in this case against Rathore.

There are two other cases currently pending against Rathore, who is being defended in court by his wife, Abha. In both these cases, he has been granted bail. One accuses him of using his position as a senior police officer to put Ruchika's brother in jail on false charges. The other charges him with fabricating documents related to Ruchika's post-mortem.

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After Ruchika accused Rathore of molesting her in 1990, he allegedly retaliated by persecuting her family and her. In 1993, the teenager drank poison and killed herself.