Chandigarh: The CBI today recorded the
statements of the father and brother of Ruchika besides their
family friend Anand Prakash as part of its probe into three
fresh FIRs filed against ex-Haryana DGP SPS Rathore who was
found guilty of raping the budding tennis player 19 years ago.
The CBI team of the Special Crime Branch (SCB), New Delhi
held a marathon eight-hour interaction with Parkash, father of
Aradhna, the sole eye witness in the molestation case, at its
camp office in Sector 18 here.
"Whatever we wanted to tell the CBI we told them. We
narrated the entire sequence of the incident commencing with
the molestation (of Ruchika on August 12, 1990)," Parkash, the
husband of Madhu who is the complainant in the case in which
Rathore was recently awarded six months imprisonment by a CBI
court, told reporters after emerging from the meeting.
He said the CBI officials did not ask any questions.
"Whatever we told them they took it as a statement. They posed
no specific questions."
Besides Parkash, the CBI officials held separate meetings
with Ruchika`s father Subhash Chander Girhotra and her brother
Ashu.
Asked whether he gave details about Veena, who Rathore`s
lawyer-wife Abha had alleged was the second wife of Ruchika`s
father, Parkash said, "Nothing about Veena was asked to me.
There is no denial to Veena`s existence, but she has not
married to Girhotra."
He said they handed over relevant documents and papers
relating to the "false cases" registered against Ashu which
had allegedly prompted Ruchika to commit suicide in 1993,
three years after she was molested.
PTI
