To press for the addition of Section 306 of the IPC (abetment to suicide) in the case
Subhash Chander Girhotra today demanded the immediate arrest of SPS Rathore, the former Haryana DGP who has been convicted of having molested his school-going daughter Ruchika.
“Wipe the smile off his face. His smile is a slap on the system of justice of this nation. He is no ordinary man. He is dangerous to society and his bail should be cancelled,” said an emotionally fraught Girhotra during at a public forum discussion for CNN-IBN TV channel here today. Calling for a complete social boycott of the Rathores, Girhotra recalled the treatment meted out by the Haryana police to his son Ashu allegedly on the insistence of Rathore.
“My son was picked up and confined by the Central Intelligence Agency staff in Ambala. I found him after two days. He had been stripped and had been mercilessly beaten up. Then he was made to parade naked in our street. And on the day Ruchika died he was still with the police and left only a day after her suicide,” said Girhotra.
Squarely blaming the politicians of Haryana for having supported Rathore Girhotra added, “It took years for the basic FIR to be lodged. Had an FIR been lodged earlier my daughter would have been alive today.”
Ruchika committed suicide three years after the incident reportedly immediately after her brother Ashu was allegedly paraded naked on the road where the Girhotras lived by the police.
Alleging that the CBI too seemed to have worked under “pressure” and compromised the investigation at several stages the Girhotra family’s lawyer Pankaj Bhardwaj today pointed out that the CBI had till date not even bothered to record Ashu’s statements.
“We will press for the addition of Section 306 of the IPC (abetment to suicide) in the case and would be moving the Supreme Court. The chemical examination report following the post-mortem report clearly states that Ruchika died after consuming an insecticide. This report was provided to the CBI but they chose to ignore it,” said Bhardwaj.
Girhotra also came down heavily on the private convent school here, which expelled Ruchika on the ground of non-payment of fees. “This was just a flimsy reason school authorities invented to rusticate Ruchika. It was well within the school rules that late fees could be deposited with a fine of Rs 30. She had been studying in the same school for 11 years and all of a sudden she stood expelled without any valid reason," he said.
( From TT )
