A court here Friday granted bail to Utsav Sharma, who attacked disgraced former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra.<\/p>\n
Sharma, who is said to be mentally disturbed, furnished a bail bond of Rs.50,000. Armed with a pen knife, he had thrice stabbed Rathore in the face outside the district court complex Monday.<\/p>\n
The Chandigarh Police opposed the bail and said Sharma, 29, could again indulge in ‘some anti-social activity’.<\/p>\n
Police had accused him of causing hurt with dangerous weapons and criminal intimidation.<\/p>\n
Police said Sharma, who pretended to be a journalist, had followed Rathore for the last one month and kept a close tab on the case through media reports.<\/p>\n
His father, S.K. Sharma, is a professor in the mechanical engineering department of Banaras Hindu University (BHU), while his mother Indira is a psychology teacher.<\/p>\n
He is pursuing a film production course at the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad. He is also fond of reading books on psychology.<\/p>\n
A Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court held Rathore guilty in December of molesting 15-year-old Ruchika Girhotra in Panchkula town in August 1990. She committed suicide three years later.<\/p>\n
Rathore was sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs.1,000 in that case. He was granted bail after his conviction. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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