Ruchika: Fresh pleas challenge CBI closure reports in 2 cases

In the fresh petitions filed against the closure reports,Prakash has mentioned that in the case of tampering with the post-mortem reports,he himself was a witness,but was not consulted by the CBI. In the case of the custodial torture of Ashu,the statement of witness Vijay Dheer was not recorded while statements of all other irrelevant witnesses were recorded.

In 1990,Ruchika Girhotra,a 13-year-old student of class X in Panchkula,was allegedly molested by Rathore. On registering a complaint,her father and brother suffered torture at the hands of the highly influential Rathore. Ruchika was expelled from school and her brother was charged with theft. In 1993,unable to cope with the circumstances,she committed suicide.

In 2009,about two decades after the case was registered,Rathore was pronounced guilty of molesting Ruchika,and was sentenced six-moth imprisonment. The two other cases,against which petitions have been filed by Prakash,were also closed in June 2012. Rathore’s punishment had been increased to 18 months but he was granted bail in November 2010.