Charges against her brother just ‘wastepaper,’ court had ruled

Ashu’s father Subhash Girhotra says,“The police never made Ashu meet Gajinder who later absconded. It all happened with the connivance of the local police. They wanted Gajinder to run away as they knew he would speak the truth and disclose how he was forced to implicate Ashu.”

Similarly,in two other cases of car theft,the court cleared Ashu saying,“not even an iota of evidence is there against the accused Ashu and Sandeep in this regard. As the car is recovered by the accused Gajinder Singh,so he alone can be held liable for theft.”

By the time this judgment came out,the police had slapped five other cases of car theft against Ashu. In his affidavit,Ashu says not only was he tortured,with Rathore allegedly being briefed of the ‘progress’,he was also paraded in his neighbourhood.

By this time,say neighbours,the jovial bright boy had turned into a recluse. Now a father of a 12-year-old daughter,Ashu keeps to himself mostly.

His father says they still get nightmares. “We wanted to run away from life because of what happened to us and because we got no help from any quarter.”

He adds: “The Chief Minister,Bhupinder Singh Hooda,wants copy of judgment before deciding further action,I have copies of all the judgments which absolved my son from the fake FIRs of auto theft. He should get those from me and do something about the boy whose prime was lost,wandering like a fugitive.”