Chandigarh, December 31: Noose around disgraced former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore tightened on Thursday as Ruchika Girhotra’s brother surfaced before the media and police and registered fresh complaint of abetment of suicide against her sister’s molester.
Ashoo Girhotra, Ruchika’s brother, was tortured by SPS Rathore which allegedly led his sister to commit suicide in 1993. Fake cases of car theft were also registered against him to evidently force his sister to withdraw complaint against Rathore.
Emerging before the media for the first time, Ashoo, who was accompanied by his father SC Girhotra and their lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj, said he had submitted his statement before the SP, Panchkula police station.
“I have submitted that my sister was molested in 1990 by Rathore. He harassed my family, registered false cases against me and due to this my sister committed suicide,” he said. I have filed a complaint seeking filing of case against Rathore under Sec 306 (abetment to suicide), he added.
“It was third degree torture that was meted out on me in the presence of Rathore,” a shaken Ashoo said. He said he wanted Rathore to be behind bars.
The complaint also sought a case against serving Haryana inspector general of police (IGP) KP Singh, who was the Ambala district police chief when Ashu was booked in false car theft cases by the police at Rathore’s behest.
Rathore, former Haryana DGP, has been held guilty of molesting Ruchika 19 years ago. The teenager committed suicide three years later as her family was continually harassed when she filed a complaint against Rathore.
The family of Ruchika, who committed suicide in 1993, three years after being molested by former Haryana DGP S P S Rathore, today decided to file a fresh FIR – the third this week – seeking invocation of section 306 of the IPC (abetment to suicide) against the top cop.
Wearing blue jeans and an off-white jacket, Ashu was taken in a green-coloured Honda-CRV sports utility vehicle to the police station.
The decision to file a fresh complaint was taken in the wake of the family’s meeting with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram in New Delhi yesterday, he said.
Describing the meeting with the Home Minister as “fruitful”, Bhradwaj said they discussed various ramifications of the case and how best to proceed further.
Replying to a question on the Supreme Court having decided on the issue of section 306 of the IPC against Rathore in 2005, he said the CBI had “ignored” investigations on the charge of abetment to suicide at that time keeping it confined to molestation (section 354) only.
“We have enough evidence to prove the charge (abetment to suicide),” he claimed.
—Agencies