Rathore fails to get relief from High Court,bail hearing deferred

SPS Rathore,sentenced to an 18-month prison term,on Tuesday failed to get any relief,with his bail plea deferred again.

Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore,who has been sentenced to an 18-month prison term by a court in Chandigarh in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case,on Tuesday again failed to get any relief,as the Punjab and Haryana High Court deferred the hearing in his bail petition to Wednesday.

The High Court’s single vacation bench of Justice Ajay Tewari posted the matter for Wednesday,after it was told to him that the advocate of Ruchika’s family,Pankaj Bhardwaj was indisposed. The same judge had deferred the hearing on Rathore’s revision petition seeking bail on Monday too.

68-year-old Rathore’s lawyer wife Abha Rathore,had filed the review petition on his behalf in the High Court on May 26,seeking bail. This was done a day after he was sentenced by a Sessions Court and lodged in the high-security Burail jail in Chandigarh.

On May 28,High Court Judge,Justice Gurdev Singh had posted the matter for May 31,acting on the plea of the CBI counsel that the investigating agency had not received copy of the review petition.

In her petition,Abha Rathore had alleged that the appellate court had on May 25 passed the order “under media pressure”.

On Monday,CBI had strongly opposed Rathore’s bail plea before the High Court,submitting that he must undergo “some part of marginal sentence” awarded to him.

14-year-old Ruchika,a budding tennis player,had committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12,1990.

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A sessions court had on May 25 enhanced Rathore’s jail term from six months to one-and-a-half years while allowing the plea of CBI and the Girhotra family.

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