January 2, 2010 9:26 AM

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Ruchika case: Rathore gets interim bail

Disgraced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore has got a week's interim bail against arrest in two cases pertaining to harassment of Ruchika's brother Ashu including a charge of attempt to murder and the doctoring of report of her postmortem. Even as Rathore got a temporary reprieve, highly placed sources in Central government said that the CBI may take over the case relating to serious charge of abetment to suicide against Rathore after Haryana government registers an FIR. <br/>Earlier, District and Sessions Judge S P Singh, who gave the bail, the interim bail shall remain in force till January 7 when the case will come up for further hearing. In its three-page order, the court also directed Rathore to make himself available for investigation in connection with the two cases if the police asked him to join the probe. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh was apprised of developments in the Ruchika molestation case by the Women and Child Development Minister Mrs.Krishna Tirath. Informed sources said that she is believed to have told the Prime Minister about the various sections under which the National Commission for Women has asked former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore to be tried. <br/>Rathore has been sentenced to six months in jail for molesting budding tennis player Ruchika 19 years ago when she was 14.The teenager had committed suicide three years later.

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