Student stabs Rathore outside court
CHANDIGARH: The disgraced former Haryana police chief, S.P.S. Rathore, was stabbed by a 24-year-old student outside the district court complex in Chandigarh on Monday.
The attacker has been identified as Utsav Sharma from Varanasi pursuing postgraduate studies in animation and film design at the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad.
Utsav stepped out of a media crowd and stabbed Rathore with a pocket knife in the neck and face before he was immediately overpowered by a policeman and taken to a nearby police station.
Senior Superintendent of Police S.S. Srivastava said the young man “seemed to be mentally unstable.” He was living in the city for just about a month. “It seems he was attacking Rathore to cause greater harm. He seems to have committed the stabbing in a fit of anger and under some psychological imbalance,” Mr. Srivastava said.
Rathore pulled out his handkerchief and put it on his bleeding cheek as he tried to regain composure. He was immediately taken to the nearest hospital and he returned to the court in blood-stained clothes after the lunch break, and the in-camera proceedings against him in a molestation case resumed.
Posing as a freelance journalist researching the case, Utsav mingled with reporters waiting for Rathore to cover the first day of the three-day hearing against his conviction which started on Monday…..
