Tainted former Haryana police chief S.P.S. Rathore, convicted and sentenced to 18 months in jail for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra in 1990, would share a cell with at least seven other prisoners, most of whom are convicted cops.<\/p>\n
Rathore was Tuesday examined by a government doctor in the Burail Jail here before being formally placed in a prison cell.<\/p>\n
\u201cRathore would be accorded an ordinary convict\u2019s status. He would be given ordinary prison food and nearly seven tainted cops are also lodged in the same barrack,\u201d a source in the high security Burail Jail said.<\/p>\n
However, since the jail is comparatively small, Rathore would not be given a prisoner\u2019s number.<\/p>\n
Many dreaded criminals, including terrorists Jagtar Singh Hawara and Paramjit Singh Bheora, convicted for assassinating Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh in 1995, are also lodged in the Burail jail.<\/p>\n
Earlier, when formally placed unnder arrest and sent to Burail Jail after the district and sessions court confirmed his conviction and enhanced sentence, a government doctor examined Rathore in jail on the court\u2019s directive.<\/p>\n
\u201cRathore said he had some medical complications and complained about poor health. We called a doctor from the government hospital in Sector 16 to check his health and condition,\u201d Assistant Inspector General (Prisons) N.P.S. Randhawa told IANS.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are taking full care of Rathore\u2019s medical requirements,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
In a desperate attempt to save Rathore from going to jail, his wife and counsel Abha Rathore pleaded with Additional District and Sessions Judge Gurbir Singh that Rathore had an appointment with a doctor at Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) here at 4 p.m. Tuesday and was not keeping good health.<\/p>\n
However, the judge turned down the plea and directed that documents regarding his medical condition be given to the jail superintendent.<\/p>\n
The judge earlier Tuesday enhanced his jail sentence from six months to 18 months.<\/p>\n
Rathore, 68, was taken into custody by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) soon after the court rejected his appeal against his December 2009 conviction in a CBI special court.<\/p>\n
Abha Rathore also reached Burail Jail to meet her husband Tuesday evening but she was not allowed to go inside as the meeting time for visitors was over.<\/p>\n
She then gave some medicines, clothes and some documents (health reports of Rathore) to the security personnel, who were deployed outside the jail.<\/p>\n
Rathore, a former director general of police (DGP) in Haryana, filed a plea in January challenging his conviction December last year by a CBI special court here for molesting 15-year-old Ruchika Aug 12, 1990.<\/p>\n
Ruchika committed suicide three years after Rathore molested her in Panchkula town, adjoining Chandigarh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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