Ruchika Molestation and Suicide Case – A complete Case Study

Ruchika Molestation and Suicide Case – A complete Case Study – A national shame
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied.

Ruchika had committed suicide in 1993, three years after she complained that Rathore had molested her.

At her tender age Ruchika understood that she will not get justice and she went to into depression and committed suicide.

Rs 1000 i.e. less than $25 and imprisonment of just six month for molestation this is the Indian legal system.This is the Bitter Truth of India.


Do we still say we do not need to change the laws and reform legal system in India where every court will work as fast track court
How many years he got the punishment is secondary question , important question is that our Indian legal system took 19 years to punish the guilty person.

While this case was going on our government kept giving Rathore promotions in his service. Rathore, who was an inspector general in Haryana police when the molestation incident took place, continued to be promoted by successive governments in the state despite the charges against him. He became Haryana DGP (October 1999-December 2000) during the rule of chief minister Om Prakash Chautala.

The signed letter was there, everything was there, when a foreign girl is raped a case is solved in a month, but when our Indian female or girl child is molested it takes 19 years to punish the guilty person. 

This clearly shows and makes up the case to reform the law as well as legal system. This happens with all the girls in India, only few strong persons like Anand can do this, otherwise a phone call comes from the higher authority and a family withdraws the cases and shift there location. 

This is India, and this is our Indian legal system, if you got money law is your Devdasi.

Why do we demand fast track Courts?
 
Why all the courts can not work as fast track courts?
 
Do they get less salary?

A committee should be set up to find and punish the persons who delayed this case purposefully.
"Like the Jessica Lal and Priyadarshi Mattoo cases, this case should also be reopened and the guilty be punished.
Why is it that no action was taken against the police which pressurized and threatened Ruchika's family?


Ruchika case - what happened with Ruchika?
 
• On August 16, 1990 Ruchika submitted a signed memorandum before the Haryana governor which acted as the foundation on which case was registered.

• An FIR was registered on December 29, 1999 under section 354 (outrage the modesty).

• On August 12, 1990, Ruchika along with her friend Aradhana went to play at the lawn tennis court and met Rathore.

• On seeing both of them, Rathore asked Aradhana to call the tennis coach to his room. But she returned half way.

• Immediately thereon, Reemu returned to the office. On entering the office Reemu found that the accused was holding one hand of Ruchika while his other hand was around her waist and Ruchika was trying to get herself released by pushing the accused with her other hand which was not held by the accused."

• In the meanwhile, finding Ruchika alone Rathore did a shameful act He molested Ruchika, who is younger than his daughter

• on August 12, 1990 at about 12:00 noon, Rathore, President, Haryana Lawn Tennis Association molested Ruchika in the office after securing her presence on the pretext of discussions on arrangements to promote her tennis career.

• After the molestation, which took place in the office of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association in August 1990, Rathore, later promoted to DGP, pulled rank

• Anand and Madhu Prakash went to then Haryana home secretary with a memorandum. This was the first official complaint for an inquiry into the molestation.

• The same day, Ruchika went to the tennis court around 5pm to find a notice declaring her suspension (with effect from August 13, 1990) on the notice board.

• Police landing at their doorstep in 1993 and parading her brother outside the house. "Ruchika was told that her father would meet with the same fate if she did not take her complaint back,"

• In September 1990, her school expelled her without citing any reason.

• “The Special Ambala CBI judicial magistrate had ordered adding the section of abetment of suicide (in the chargesheet against Rathore). But in 2002 the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed the order

• The CBI said that because Ruchika had killed herself three years after the molestation, her death could not be linked to Rathore. Oddly enough, the CBI's own chargesheet contradicts that. It says, "The investigation has also disclosed that after the incident of molestation of Ms Ruchika remained confined to her house and remained depressed. Later, she committed suicide."

• Ruchika's elder brother, Ashu, then only a teenager, was thrashed by police and slapped with several cases

• Ruchika's teenager brother was slapped with 11 cases, most involving him in theft.

• Ashu was arrested by the Crime Branch of Panchkula police in October 1993, allegedly at the behest of Rathore, and kept in illegal detention for a period of more than two months. He was allegedly forced to sign on blank papers, which were used by the police to show his "confessions" that he stole 11 cars.

• Ashu was acquitted by the court in all the cases later on.

• Time Line of Ruchika Case -
 
• Aug 12, 1990: Rathore, then IG, molests Ruchika at his office-cum-home

• Sept 3, 1990: Inquiry report indicts Rathore.

• Sept 20, 1990: Ruchika expelled from school for ‘indiscipline’

• Aug 12, 1992: Case referred to Haryana Chief Secretary for advice.

• Oct 23, 1993: Ruchika's brother arrested in several theft cases.

• Dec 28, 1993: Ruchika commits suicide.

• Anand Parkash and his wife took over the fight as Ruchika's family fell silent after her death. Prakash says Rathore offered to settle the case out of court, but his reply was: the only person who had a right to settle it was dead.

• Nov 1994: Rathore gets promoted; no action on inquiry report.

• 1994-1997: Complainant Anand Parkash tries to get copy of the inquiry report; finally gets it in 1997.

• November 1997: Anand Parkash moves High Court

• August 21, 1998: High Court directs CBI to conduct inquiry•

• November 16, 2000: CBI files charge sheet

• July 2002: Rathore retires.

• Nov 5, 2009: Case transferred from Ambala court to CBI Chandigarh•

• Dec 11, 2009: Court closes final arguments, sets date for verdict

• Dec 15, 2009: Case adjourned till December 21

• Dec 21, 2009: CBI court gives six-month jail to Rathore.

• Rathore was given a jail sentence of 6 months and fined Rs 1,000. He managed to get bail soon after the verdict was announced

• After punishment once again we noticed in India that a criminal always wins the case no matter what as law and our system has become mistress of rich and powerful people of India. Before Independence British people enjoyed this status today our own people enjoy this status.

Anand Prakash the man who fought the case –
After Ruchika's death, her family withdrew into a shell. But Parkash carried on the battle. "It is unfair to blame her father and brother for not pursuing the case. In fact, they had given me an affidavit under which I could act on their behalf. I was harassed as well. I was a Haryana government employee. Out of the blue disciplinary charges were slapped against me. I was abruptly transferred along with my entire staff to far off places. But I was supported by my wife and daughter who kept fighting."

The Prakash family, which was involved in bringing the incident to public gaze right from the beginning, became even more resolute after the girl's death. R.R. Singh's report was put in cold storage. No case was registered by the government. Madhu Prakas h, the original petitioner, got a copy of the report only in 1997. She approached the Punjab and Haryana High Court seeking a ruling that a case be registered. The Court observed that a case should have been registered immediately after the receipt of the e (R.R. Singh) report. "Why the State government had allowed eight years to elapse has not been explained properly...," noted the order.
It was his wife, who filed a criminal petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court.

Update 10th Jan Ruchika case - 

Police make the move arrest Gajendra from Pune
The Haryana Police have arrested Gajendra from Pune, Ganjendra is the man on whose testimony Ruchikas brother Ashu Girhotra was booked in six auto theft cases.
Gajandra had testified against Ashu in the court, saying the latter was his accomplice in car theft cases.

Gajendra was arrested at Pune - Baner Road around 11.30 pm on Friday and produced before the court to get the transit remand so then can take him to the Panchkula in Haryana and interrogate him to find out why he falsely implicated Ashu in car theft cases.
In the year 1994 Gajendra was arrested for car theft who named that Ashu and his friend Sandeep as his accomplices but court cleared the two of all charges and convicted Gajendra for the thefts and but he later escaped and was proclaimed offender.






Below is the photo of Prakash and his wife


Below is the photo of Ruchika and Molestor Rathor .


Justice Delayed is Justice Denied .

Punish all the people who delayed the procedure of law .

UPDATE – Wednesday, May 26, 2010
 
Former police officer S P S Rathore, who was on Tuesday imprisoned for 18 months for molesting teenaged tennis player Ruchika Girhotra, has "no remorse for the wrong committed by him", said a Chandigarh court while increasing his punishment.