The Haryana Government has recommended a CBI investigation into three fresh FIRs, including abetment to suicide, filed against former state DGP S.P.S. Rathore in the molestation case.
“The state government made the recommendation to the Centre for the transfer of the fresh FIRs to the CBI yesterday,” official sources said.
Rathore was yesterday booked under Section 306 of the IPC (abetment to suicide) on a complaint lodged with the Panchkula police by the victim’s brother.
Earlier, FIRs were registered against him on the complaints of the budding tennis player’s father and brother for various offences, including attempt to murder, torture and harassment and doctoring the post-mortem report.
Rathore was recently handed down a six-month imprisonment sentence by a CBI court at Chandigarh for molesting the 14-year old on August 12, 1990.
The victim then committed suicide by consuming poison on December 29, 1993 at her Panchkula residence, unable to bear the police harassment and torture of her brother in fake cases.
Bowing to public outburst over the light punishment handed to the officer, the state government had ordered a probe by the Special Investigation Team into various charges against him, including abetment to suicide, which were not considered against him in the first investigation by the CBI.
