Amid uproar over the quantum of punishment pronounced in the Ruchika molestation case, the Haryana government today said a decision on the appeal against the order of a CBI court will be taken after the Punjab and Haryana "high court ruling".
"Let us wait for the high court ruling, and only after that we will decide whether to appeal against the verdict," chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda told reporters here.
Former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore, who was indicted in the case, is in the process of filing an appeal in the high court. He was convicted to six months of imprisonment.
Hooda also sought to distance his party from allegations that the DGP was promoted despite the case pending against him.
"Congress has got nothing to do with the case. He (Rathore) has got what he deserved," Hooda said when asked for his reaction as the case happened in 1990, when Congress was in power.
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