Ruchika's family plans to file a fresh complaint over the CBI's 'compromise' for its exclusion of abetment of suicide charge against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore.
A day after Ruchika Girhotra's family hit out at the CBI for making a "compromise", chairman of the All India Anti Terrorist Front MS Bitta today lashed out at the Intelligence Bureau (IB) for its alleged failure in providing inputs to the higher authorities regarding "true facts" of the teenager's molestation case.
"We only talk about the CBI's lapse. But this case also raises questions on the working of the intelligence agencies of the state and centre. These officials are supposed to keep track of such cases, especially when the accused is a senior IPS official, but it appears they did not provide any report regarding true facts of the case and failed to give inputs to the higher authorities which could have changed the fate of the case," Bitta told reporters here.
"We all know there is a intelligence official present even during important press conferences. These officials regularly prepare reports and send them to the higher authorities...but it is not just the failure of the CBI or the intelligence agencies," he said.
Ruchika's family plans to file a fresh complaint over the CBI's "compromise" for its exclusion of abetment of suicide charge against former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore.
Demanding that a fresh case be registered in the case as "facts had been supressed or manipulated earlier at Rathore's behest," Bitta said it was not only the former DGP who was guilty of the crime, "but all those including politicians who helped him and strict action must be taken against all of them".
Madhu Prakash, the complainant in the case and her husband Anand Prakash who were present during the interaction, said the molestation incident was also a "kind of terrorism which exists within our society. Laws need to change so that influential persons like Rathore do not manage to arm-twist and manipulate the whole system".
Meanwhile, the Prakash family did not accept the award from Bitta for the "bravery" they showed in fighting the molestation case on the grounds that they will accept any honour or award only after they have taken the case to its "logical conclusion".
"This is just tip of the iceberg. We will achieve true victory once the accused gets a severe punishment for his crime," Anand Prakash said. Bitta said this case should act as a severe deterent to all those who indulge in such heinous crimes.
"In future, such incidents should not happen with any girl and people like Rathore should not come out smilingly out of the court after the verdict," he said.
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