Haryana govt seeks CBI probe into fresh charges against Rathore

The Haryana government has recommended that the Central Bureau of Investigation take over the probe into the three fresh FIRs, including abetment to suicide charge, filed against disgraced former state director general of police SPS Rathore, in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case.

"The state government made the recommendation to the Centre for transfer of the fresh FIRs to CBI on Tuesday," official sources said.

Rathore was on Tuesday booked under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (abetment to suicide) on a complaint lodged with the Panchkula police by Ruchika's brother Ashu.

Earlier, FIRs were registered against him on the complaints of Ruchika's father Subhash Chander Girhotra and Ashu for various offences, including attempt to murder, torture and harassment and doctoring the post-mortem

Rathore was recently handed down a six-month imprisonment by a CBI court at Chandigarh for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika on August 12, 1990. The budding tennis star committed suicide by consuming poison on December 29, 1993 at her Panchkula residence, unable to bear police harassment and torture of her brother in fake cases.

Bowing to the public outburst over the light punishment handed over to the molester officer, the state government had ordered a probe by the Special Investigation Team into the various charges against him, including abetment to suicide, which were not considered against him in the first investigation by the CBI.