The former Haryana DGP, S.P.S. Rathore, failed to get any relief from the Punjab and Haryana High Court which deferred the pronouncement of the verdict on his revision petition in the 1990 molestation case to June 29.
Mr. Rathore will be serving time in the Burail Jail here at least till June-end. His wife and counsel, Abha Rathore, filed the review petition on his behalf in the High Court on May 26 seeking bail, a day after he was sentenced and lodged in the high-security jail here.
Vacation judge Ajay Tewari, who had deferred the pronouncement of the verdict on Rathore's plea till Friday, adjourned the case. The court said it will consider the bail application later this month. “Given the seriousness of the offence, the bail cannot be granted so early,” said the judge.
Abha Rathore, her sister Neerja, CBI counsel Ajay Kaushik, Anand Parkash and Madhu Parkash (parents of Aradhna, the complainant in the case), and father of the teenage victims and a battery of media persons were among those present in the court.
The teenage budding tennis player, had committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990. A session's court had on May 25 enhanced Rathore's jail term from six months to one-and-a-half years while allowing the plea of the CBI and the Girhotra family.
