Decks have been cleared for transferring the case to the CBI, sources said. The premier investigating agency is likely to focus on the issue of abetment to suicide by Rathore.
More trouble seems to be brewing against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore as a Central Bureau of Investigation probe seems to be imminent in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation and suicide case.
Decks have been cleared for transferring the case to the CBI, sources said. The premier investigating agency is likely to focus on the issue of abetment to suicide by Rathore.
This apart, the home ministry was learnt to be probing at its own level certain other allegations against Rathore, including forcing the Girhotra family to flee from Chandigarh after Ruchika committed suicide. The ministry will also probe whether the Girhotras were forced to sell their property at a “throwaway” price to a “close associate” of Rathore.
The sources said, if probed, this would become damning evidence against Rathore for having grossly misused his official position to pressurise Ruchika’s family to withdraw cases against him.
In preparation for transfer of the case to the CBI, the Haryana police are likely to register a case against Rathore under Section 306 of the CrPC (abetment to suicide). Subsequently, the case would be transferred to the CBI at the behest of the state government, the sources added.
They further pointed out that a broad-based probe by the CBI was also likely, which would go beyond Rathore. The probe would certainly focus on all Haryana police personnel who were involved in “falsely implicating and torturing” Ruchika’s brother Ashu.
Another important aspect that the CBI probe would focus on, would be the role played by Chandigarh’s Sacred Heart Convent School from where Ruchika was expelled.
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