HC to UT: Submit action taken report against Sacred Heart School

The Chandigarh Administration,on the previous hearing,had produced a photocopy of the report prepared some two years ago on Ruchika’s expulsion from Sacred Heart Covent School. The report,however,was returned and UT was given time to file a status report.

Meanwhile,addressing the court on the issue of Ratho’e’s promotions despite the allegations,CBI counsel Ajay Kaushik told the Bench that Rathore was exonerated by the Haryana government and for three years the Centre was not even informed about the developments. Kaushik also placed on record the investigation report prepared by former DGP Haryana R R Singh against Rathore.

The Bench also took exception to an affidavit filed by Ratho’e’s counsel and wife Abha Rathore. Petitioner Ranjan Lakhanpal too objected to the affidavit by saying that the issue of maintainability raised in the court on a previous date of hearing had not been addressed

The development took place during the resumed hearing of a public interest litigation filed by World Human Rights Protection Council through its chairman,advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal. Rathore had questioned the locus standi of the petitioner.

Lakhanpal had earlier sought directions for independent probe in the Ruchika case,right from the day she was allegedly molested till the final decision of the case.