Chandigarh, Dec 30 : The Haryana government Wednesday announced the setting up of a committee to probe the charges made against disgraced former state police chief S. P. S. Rathore in the two fresh first information reports (FIRs) registered against him, state government sources said here.

The committee will be headed by Inspector General of Police Shatrujit Kapoor and includes Panchkula district police chief Maneesh Chaudhary. The committee will examine the charges made against Rathore in the Ruchika Girhotra molestation case and subsequent events in the two new FIRs registered Tuesday evening.

Rathore, a former Haryana DGP, has been booked by the Panchkula police in two cases on serious and non-bailable criminal charges like attempt to murder, criminal intimidation, forging evidence, wrongful confinement, fabricating false evidence and criminal conspiracy.

The district and sessions court in Panchkula Wednesday did not allow interim bail to Rathore on an anticipatory bail plea moved by him.

Rathore was convicted by a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special court here Dec 21 in the molestation case, 19 years after the incident.

Ruchika, 15, a budding tennis player was molested by Rathore here Aug 12, 1990. After she and her friends complained to the Haryana government, Rathore allegedly harassed and tortured her brother and family, using his powerful position as a senior police officer.

Ruchika, unable to cope with the harassment of her family, committed suicide three years later by consuming poison.(IANS)