Wife,sister-in-law visit Rathore in Burail jail

Three days after he was arrested and jailed in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case,former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore had two visitors on Saturday at the Model Jail in Burail,where he is lodged.

Three days after he was arrested and jailed in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case,former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore had two visitors on Saturday at the Model Jail in Burail,where he is lodged. His wife Abha Rathore and sister-in-law Neeraj came to visit him at 10 am and spent nearly an hour with him.

The visiting days for the relatives of the prisoners are decided in an alphabetical order. Rathores visiting day fell on Saturday.

Abha had come to the jail soon after her husband was arrested on Wednesday to hand over some clothes and medicines. She was,however,however,not allowed to go inside and meet Rathore.

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The Haryana Police officer was sentenced to one-and-half-years imprisonment by Additional District and Sessions Judge Gurbir Singh on May 25,while enhancing his previous punishment of six months granted by a lower court in December last year.

It was for the first time that the former Haryana DGP was put behind the bars for a crime committed 20 years ago after which teenager Ruchika committed suicide in 1993,and her family left Panchkula. The trial began in 1998 when Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered a CBI probe on the writ petition filed by Madhu Prakash,mother of Ruchikas friend Aradhana and the only eyewitness in the incident.

His wife has moved a bail plea in the Punjab and Haryana High Court,which will now come up for hearing on Monday.

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