Legal see-saw in lengthy trial
The hapless Girhotras found SPS Rathore too smart in their legal fight: He blocked their quest for justice at every step.
By TNN |
CHANDIGARH: The hapless Girhotras found SPS Rathore too smart in their legal fight: He blocked their quest for justice at every step using the judicial process. As a result, even courts at different times held different views about their plight.
On February 2002, Justice K C Kathuria of Punjab and Haryana high court had dismissed a CBI court's decision registering an FIR against Rathore for abetment to suicide on the ground of lack of complaint regarding harassment.
Yet on December 13, 2000, a division bench of the high court comprising justice N K Sodhi and justice N K Sood itself came forward for compensation to Ashu, the elder brother of Ruchika, for the harassment caused to him at the hands of Panchkula police in order to force his sister to withdraw complaint against Rathore.
A lower court in Panchkula had gone to the extent of terming registration of theft cases against Ashu in 1992 and 1993 as mere "waste of paper."
From September 6, 1992 to August 30, 1993, the state police had registered six FIRs against Ashu.
On February 2002, Justice K C Kathuria of Punjab and Haryana high court had dismissed a CBI court's decision registering an FIR against Rathore for abetment to suicide on the ground of lack of complaint regarding harassment.
Yet on December 13, 2000, a division bench of the high court comprising justice N K Sodhi and justice N K Sood itself came forward for compensation to Ashu, the elder brother of Ruchika, for the harassment caused to him at the hands of Panchkula police in order to force his sister to withdraw complaint against Rathore.
A lower court in Panchkula had gone to the extent of terming registration of theft cases against Ashu in 1992 and 1993 as mere "waste of paper."
From September 6, 1992 to August 30, 1993, the state police had registered six FIRs against Ashu.
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