Ruchika case: Court rejects Rathore’s bail plea

A Panchkula sessions court in Haryana dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former police DGP SPS Rathore.

Disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore was denied anticipatory bail by a sessions court in Panchkula in connection with two fresh FIRs registered in the Ruchika molestation case levelling serious criminal charges against him.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Sanjiv Jindal said in court that he was dismissing two anticipatory bail pleas each of Rathore and his co-accused ASI Sewa Singh relating to the two new cases registered against them.

The judge had reserved his order on the anticipatory bail pleas for today. Details of the verdict were not immediately available.

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67-year-old Rathore and Sewa Singh had filed the petitions following registration of the two FIRs on December 29.

Ruchika’s father Subhash Chander Girhotra and his son Ashu had filed two fresh complaints against Rathore accusing him of attempt to murder,wrongful confinement and forging of the post-mortem report of the victim.

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