The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Wednesday reserved till Thursday its order on a bail petition by former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, sentenced to 18 months imprisonment in a molestation case.
Vacation judge Justice Ajay Tiwari reserved his order after hearing arguments from CBI counsel Anmol Rattan Sidhu and Ajay Kaushik, Rathore’s lawyer-wife Abha and the lawyer of the victim’s family Pankaj Bhardwaj for over an hour.
Rathore is undergoing the sentence in high security Burail jail after being awarded one-and-a-half-year prison term by a local court on May 25 for molesting a budding tennis player in 1990.
The local court had enhanced Rathore’s six-month jail term while allowing the pleas of CBI and the girl’s family.
The girl had committed suicide three years after the incident.
