Former Haryana police chief SPS Rathore was on Tuesday sentenced to 18 months in prison by a Chandigarh court for the 1990 molestation of teenager Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide three years later. Rathore was arrested immediately.

The district and sessions court sentenced the disgraced former police official to one and a half years of rigorous imprisonment, enhancing his earlier six-month sentence.