By IANS,
Chandigarh : Haryana police Wednesday announced the setting up of a special investigation team (SIT) to probe two criminal charges against former state police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted of molesting a teenager.
Director General of Police (DGP) R.S. Dalal has constituted the SIT to probe charges, including non-bailable ones like attempt to murder, against Rathore, a former DGP of the state from October 1999 to December 2000.
A Haryana police spokesman said that the SIT will be headed by Inspector General of Police S.S. Kapoor and has Panchkula district police chief Maneesh Chaudhary and five other officers.
The SIT has been asked to probe the case expeditiously, the spokesman added.
The committee will examine the charges made against Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case and subsequent events in the two new first information reports (FIRs) registered Tuesday evening.
Rathore was booked on charges like attempt to murder, criminal intimidation, forging evidence, wrongful confinement, fabricating false evidence and criminal conspiracy.
The district and sessions court in Panchkula Wednesday did not give interim bail to Rathore, whose plea will now be heard Jan 1. Rathore faces imminent arrest.
Rathore was convicted by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court here Dec 21 for molesting 15 year-old Ruchika in 1990.
After she and her friends complained to the Haryana government, Rathore harassed and tortured her brother and the rest of her family, using his position as a senior police officer.
Unable to cope with the harassment of her family, Ruchika committed suicide three years later.