Yesterday , after a long gap of nineteen years, the molester of 14 year Ruchika Gehrotra, former Director General of Police SPS Rathore was punished by a court.
His punishment, a jail term of 6 months a fine of Rs. 1000 and simultaneously granted a bail to appeal.
The event-In 1990, then IG of Police and president of tennis Association of State of Haryana, SPS Rathore, called up a budding tennis player, a 14 year old girl to his office and openly molested her. She complained, and luckily there was an eye witness( Anand Prakash's daughter), but that was when the ordeal of her life started.
What followed was far worse, as her brother was harrased to the point when she just could not deal with it any more. For a start, he older brother was arrested on false charges of car theft and tortured, while he was custody.
The poor girl herself was expelled from her school for reasons unknown, her father was harassed by his bank managers.And the icing on the cake..Goondas descended upon the house and threatened her mother
So Ruchika's ordeal which started that day, only finished for her three years later after her suicide...because she could not deal with it any more.
The government declared the file closed, seven days thereafter....
Anand Prakash, fought the case on behalf of his daughter's best friend, despite all that he had to face, and continued..... despite all the odds. He said that he did it so that minor girls in India could have a safe future, and knows that the DIG was protected by people art various levels. Not only that, the accused was consistently promoted, and given an honourable pension when he retired.
So what can be done for Ruchika? How can we get her justice?
Here's where the campaign 'Justice for Ruchika' comes in.
Like me, I am confident that all Indians and people who care will take it to its logical conclusion.
We saw it in Jessica Lal's case. Let us see it in 'Justice for Ruchika'.
The culprit should be punished badly!!
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