Will soon register Ashu Girhotra's case: Hooda

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda indicated on Saturday that a first information report under abetment to suicide complaint filed two days ago by Ruchika's brother might be registered once investigations are completed.

"May be today," Hooda told journalists in Chandigarh on the sidelines of a state Congress meeting when asked if the FIR on Ashu's complaint under Section 306 of the Indian Penal Code (abetment to suicide) against former Haryana director general of police S P S Rathore and others would be registered.

"Justice will be done in the case... naturally, they have lodged a complaint and FIR will be registered once the investigations are completed," he said.

"The report from home secretary is yet to come. I am waiting for the report from the special investigation team. If the SIT report says the CBI (Central Bureau of Investigation) should take up the case, then we will look into it. The entire case should be revisited," he added.

When asked if he had talked to Home Minister P Chidambaram with regard to the molestation case, Hooda parried a reply, saying, "We keep talking regularly on various issues."

Hooda said he has full sympathy with the members of the family of Ruchika, who was molested by Rathore, the then inspector general of police in August 1990. The victim committed suicide in December 1993.

Ashu had filed a complaint with the Panchkula police seeking registration of a case under section 306 against Rathore.

In the complaint, Ashu alleged that he was tortured, harassed and booked in false cases after the molestation of his sister.

"Such circumstances were created which compelled his sister to commit suicide in 1993 -- three years after the molestation by Rathore," the family lawyer had told the superintendent of Panchkula.

Besides Rathore, four other police personnel -- then Ambala SP K P Singh, Assistant Sub Inspector Jai Narayan, Senior Inspector Prem Dutt and ASI Sewa Singh have also been named in the complaint.