The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday presented evidence before a local court hearing pleas of the agency and the victim’s family seeking enhancement of the sentence awarded to former Haryana DGP S.P.S Rathore for molesting the teenager.
During the day-long in-camera proceedings, the CBI counsel presented evidence and witnesses in the case.
“The investigating agency is likely to end up reading out its evidence by tomorrow and after that I may take a day to present my views before the Judge gives his verdict,” Pankaj Bhardwaj, lawyer for the victim’s family, told reporters outside court premises.
Mr. Bhardwaj said that “after the hearing is over, if the court upholds the sentence or enhances it, the arrest of Rathore is imminent.
“It’s a second appeal in this case and there is no provision of grant of bail immediately if the sentence is upheld or it is enhanced,” he added.
“We here have a good case against the accused,” Mr. Bhardwaj said.
During the court proceedings, which were out of bounds for media, Rathore and his wife and Anand Parkash, father of the victim’s friend and prime witness Aradhana, were also present in the court room.
