Ruchika Molestation Case

Former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore, held guilty of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra who committed suicide in 1993, will not have to go back to jail, the Supreme Court said today.

A special court in Panchkula on Wednesday dismissed pleas challenging CBI closure reports in two cases linked to Ruchika Malhotra molestation against disgraced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore but allowed the petitioner to move the lower court.

The family of Ruchika Girhotra has moved a special CBI court today challenging the closure reports filed by the investigating agency. The report had given clean chit to accused SPS Rathore, Haryana's former Director General of Police, in cases related to tampering of Ruchika's post-mortem reports and torturing her brother, Ashu Girhotra in police ...

Ruchika Girhotra's family has reportedly withdrawn charges against former Deputy General of Police (DGP) of Haryana SPS Rathore. They have told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that they have no objection to closing of the case. The CBI had filed a closure report in the case around 20 months back.

Has the CBI neglected basic facts in closing the case against SPS Rathore, the former Haryana top cop, accused in the molestation and suicide of the teenager Ruchika Girhotra? Despite the CBI's assertion that the Ruchika's brother Ashu's case was closed for want of what it calls credible evidence, a key eyewitness Vijay Dheer, says he deposed befor...

The man who was found guilty of molesting a teenager when he was one of Haryana's senior-most policemen has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. The court has, however, asked Rathore not to leave the country.SPS Rathore has been in a Haryana prison since May this year.In December 2009, he was found guilty of molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotr...

The man who was found guilty of molesting a teenager when he was one of Haryana's senior-most policemen has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. The court has, however, asked Rathore not to leave the country. SPS Rathore has been in a Haryana prison since May this year.In December 2009, he was found guilty of molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhot...

The CBI today said it had found no evidence to support the allegations made by Ruchika Girhotra's family against former Haryana Police Chief SPS Rathore, at present serving 18-month jail sentence for molesting the teenager in 1990, and filed a closure report in a court here.      The CBI gave a point-by-point rebuttal to al...

After four months in prison, SPS Rathore is desperate to get out. And he may soon be granted a 42-day parole he's asked for, ostensibly to attend to his farmland. In May this year, Rathore, who retired as Haryana's senior-most policeman, was sentenced to 18 months for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990. That verdict came after an incens...

The man who was once Haryana's senior-most policeman will stay in jail for molesting a teenager named Ruchika Girhotra.The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed SPS Rathore's plea  challenging the 18-month jail sentence given to him by a lower court in May this year.Rathore, 68, is currently in jail.In December 2009, he was sentenced to ...

The Union Ministry of Personnel has completely withdrawn the pension of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore with effect from June 23.The decision to completely withdraw the pension was taken by the ministry after a reply was received by the former IPS officer. The ministry had sent a notice to Rathore asking him, why his pension should not be stopped? U...

SPS Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, will stay in jail for now. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in May by a Haryana court and is currently in Burail Jail.

CBI ,on Monday, strongly opposed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court the bail plea of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to an 18-month jail term in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, and submitted that he must undergo "some part of marginal sentence" awarded to him.

Abha Rathore, wife of ex-Haryana DGP S P S Rathore, awarded 18-month prison term recently by a court in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, on Saturday met him in the high-security Burail jail in Chandigarh.Abha, who appeared as a counsel for the former top cop, spent nearly an hour with him in the prison, a jail official said.  She met her...

Ruchika Girhotra's tormentor SPS Rathore, who was sentenced to a year and half year in jail, has appealed for suspension of the sentence.

Former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore, held guilty of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra who committed suicide in 1993, will not have to go back to jail, the Supreme Court said today.

A special court in Panchkula on Wednesday dismissed pleas challenging CBI closure reports in two cases linked to Ruchika Malhotra molestation against disgraced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore but allowed the petitioner to move the lower court.

The family of Ruchika Girhotra has moved a special CBI court today challenging the closure reports filed by the investigating agency. The report had given clean chit to accused SPS Rathore, Haryana's former Director General of Police, in cases related to tampering of Ruchika's post-mortem reports and torturing her brother, Ashu Girhotra in police ...

Ruchika Girhotra's family has reportedly withdrawn charges against former Deputy General of Police (DGP) of Haryana SPS Rathore. They have told the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) that they have no objection to closing of the case. The CBI had filed a closure report in the case around 20 months back.

Has the CBI neglected basic facts in closing the case against SPS Rathore, the former Haryana top cop, accused in the molestation and suicide of the teenager Ruchika Girhotra? Despite the CBI's assertion that the Ruchika's brother Ashu's case was closed for want of what it calls credible evidence, a key eyewitness Vijay Dheer, says he deposed befor...

The man who was found guilty of molesting a teenager when he was one of Haryana's senior-most policemen has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. The court has, however, asked Rathore not to leave the country.SPS Rathore has been in a Haryana prison since May this year.In December 2009, he was found guilty of molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotr...

The man who was found guilty of molesting a teenager when he was one of Haryana's senior-most policemen has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. The court has, however, asked Rathore not to leave the country. SPS Rathore has been in a Haryana prison since May this year.In December 2009, he was found guilty of molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhot...

The CBI today said it had found no evidence to support the allegations made by Ruchika Girhotra's family against former Haryana Police Chief SPS Rathore, at present serving 18-month jail sentence for molesting the teenager in 1990, and filed a closure report in a court here.      The CBI gave a point-by-point rebuttal to al...

After four months in prison, SPS Rathore is desperate to get out. And he may soon be granted a 42-day parole he's asked for, ostensibly to attend to his farmland. In May this year, Rathore, who retired as Haryana's senior-most policeman, was sentenced to 18 months for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990. That verdict came after an incens...

The man who was once Haryana's senior-most policeman will stay in jail for molesting a teenager named Ruchika Girhotra.The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed SPS Rathore's plea  challenging the 18-month jail sentence given to him by a lower court in May this year.Rathore, 68, is currently in jail.In December 2009, he was sentenced to ...

The Union Ministry of Personnel has completely withdrawn the pension of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore with effect from June 23.The decision to completely withdraw the pension was taken by the ministry after a reply was received by the former IPS officer. The ministry had sent a notice to Rathore asking him, why his pension should not be stopped? U...

SPS Rathore, convicted of molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra, will stay in jail for now. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison in May by a Haryana court and is currently in Burail Jail.

CBI ,on Monday, strongly opposed before the Punjab and Haryana High Court the bail plea of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to an 18-month jail term in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, and submitted that he must undergo "some part of marginal sentence" awarded to him.

Abha Rathore, wife of ex-Haryana DGP S P S Rathore, awarded 18-month prison term recently by a court in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case, on Saturday met him in the high-security Burail jail in Chandigarh.Abha, who appeared as a counsel for the former top cop, spent nearly an hour with him in the prison, a jail official said.  She met her...

Ruchika Girhotra's tormentor SPS Rathore, who was sentenced to a year and half year in jail, has appealed for suspension of the sentence.