Justice R.L. Anand today directed that an FIR under Sections 354/509 of the IPC be registered against Rathore, in a case filed by the mother of a friend of the alleged victim, Ruchika.

Madhu, the mother of Ruchika's friend, had alleged that Rathore had tried to molest Ruchika on August 12, 1990, when she was accompanied by her daughter, while undergoing tennis training under the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association, of which Rathore was the president. Ruchika allegedly consumed poison three years after the incident and died at the PGI. Rathore said before the court that Ruchika's death was in no way related to the alleged incident of 1990.

On Madhu's complaint, the then Haryana government had handed over an inquiry to a DGP, who had held Rathore guilty of the charge. Rathore challenged the report of R.R. Singh, labelling it "false, unfair and motivated". Later, Madhu moved the High Court, following the government "inaction".

Rathore, meanwhile, denied the charges against him before the court and said that even though the father and brother of the deceased were alive, they were not pursuing the case, while a person not even related to the girl was doing so. He also expressed lack of faith in the Haryana Police in carrying out investigations in the case.