New Delhi: The CBI is set to file a status report on its probe against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathode on Tuesday in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, in the Ruchika Girhotra case.
The report is in connection with a PIL seeking a fresh case against Rathore charging him with abetment of suicide of child.
The bench was hearing Rathode's plea seeking quashing of FIR accusing him of abetment of suicide under section 306.
Rathode is currently serving an 18-month sentence for molesting the Chandigarh teen.
The lawyer had filed the PIL in December last year seeking a fresh case against Rathore under section 305 of the IPC as Ruchika was a minor when the incident occurred.
The two cases related to the accusation against Rathore that he had doctored Ruchika's postmortem report and was behind the custodial torture of her brother Ashu. Punishment under Section 305 includes death penalty or life imprisonment.
After spending close to six months behind bars, Rathore - serving an 18-month sentence in Ruchika molestation case - was granted bail by the Supreme Court last month.
Ruchika (14), a budding tennis player, committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990.
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