Activists of several social and human rights organisations and NGOs today took out a candlelight procession here to protest the CBI's closure report in cases against disgraced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore convicted for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra.
Activists of several social, human rights organisations and NGOs today took out a candle light procession here to protest CBI's closure report in cases against disgraced former Haryana top cop SPS Rathore convicted for molesting teenager Ruchika Girhotra.
Around 18 different organisations under the ageis of 'Tri-city Social Organisation Federation' organized the procession at upmarket sector 17 of Chandigarh protesting the CBI's step.
The protesters, carrying placards and candles in their hands, took a round of the main market in Sector 17 here. Among others who participated in the procession included Anand Parkash and his wife Madhu who fought for two decades the legal battle against Rathore in courts.
Anand and Madhu are parents of Aradhana, the sole eye witness in the molestation case, and a friend of Ruchika who committed suicide in 1993 after being molested by Rathore in 1990.
Anand Parkash said the closure report filed by CBI was "at a wrong time".
The CBI had recently filed a closure report a court in Ambala in two of the three fresh cases registered against Rathore.
The two cases related to the accusation against the top cop that he had doctored Ruchika's post mortem report and that he was behind the custodial torture of her brother Ashu.
The closure reports were filed before the CBI court in Ambala which is yet to take a view. The CBI court has issued notices to the Girhotra family.
However, the probe into the abetment to suicide charge is still on.
After spending close to six months behind bars, Rathore, serving an 18-month sentence in Ruchika molestation case, walked free on Friday last, a day after the Supreme Court granted him bail.
Ruchika, 14, a budding tennis player, committed suicide three years after being molested by Rathore on August 12, 1990.
A sessions court had on May 25 this year increased Rathore's jail term from six months to one and half years while allowing CBI and Ruchika Girhotra family's appeal for enhancement of the punishment.
The Punjab and Haryana high court had on September 1 dismissed Rathore's appeal challenging his conviction and the sentence, saying his conduct as a top official was "shameful".
Anand Prakash reiterated his demand that there should be an independent commission of inquiry in which there should be no police representative to probe molestation cases where cops are involved.
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