Panchkula: Retired police officer S P S Rathore, who has been convicted of molesting a teenaged tennis player, on Wednesday said the media had no right to question him and he had no comments to make on fresh FIRs being filed against him.
“The day you can satisfy me that you are the constitutional power to decide on these judicial matters I will speak,” Rathore, 67, told reporters after a court in Panchkula deferred a decision on his interim bail plea.
The former police officer’s wife and his lawyer, Abha Rathore, told reporters that they were not “running away” from the media. “Don't get excited. Click as many pictures as you want,” she said.
Rathore, a former Haryana director general of police, has been convicted of molesting fourteen-year-old Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago and is now facing fresh charges of abetment to her suicide.
Abha, in a 40-page petition before District and Sessions Judge S P Singh, alleged that her husband was facing a "nothing but a trial by the media" and sought protection of the court.
"We came to know of the FIRs and the fresh charges through the media. We want protection of this court in view of the media trial and distortion of facts," she said.
"Press people were responsible people but in this case they have created a hype. Media wants to harass and humiliate my family. Editors are trying to portray themselves as moralistic."
"If four people shout about something which is wrong, it will not become a right. "If four people describe a donkey as a horse, it will not become a horse," she said during the proceedings,” she said.
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