With a 'puja thali' in her hand, Ruchika's friend Aradhana accompanied by 35 well-wishers of the family took out a march to house No 363 where Ruchika lived with her family then.
Sixteen years after molestation victim Ruchika Girhotra died after consuming poison, her friends and family members today took out a march here and lit a lamp outside the house where the teenager once lived.
14-year-old Ruchika, who was molested by former DGP of Haryana SPS Rathore in 1990, consumed poison on December 28, 1993 and died the following day.
With a 'puja thali' in her hand, Ruchika's friend Aradhana accompanied by 35 well-wishers of the family took out a march from her house No 210 in Sector 6 to house No 363 in the same sector where Ruchika lived with her family then.
Accompanied by her husband Aman, who works in Australia, and her mother Madhu, Aradhana lit an earthen lamp outside the house which has changed hands a couple of times and is presently being re-built.
The marchers observed a minute's silence outside the house in which no family is residing presently.
Aradhana told reporters waiting outside the house that, "The signature campaign launched by me today has evoked a good response from people in our struggle for justice for Ruchika and her family."
"We are also getting a large number of e-mails from residents within the country and abroad offering support to the campaign," Aradhana said.
"After 19 years of Ruchika's molestation and suicide three years later, the incidents have become a people's fight for justice. Ruchika's soul would have got some satisfaction. She must have smiled."
Aradhana said that since Ruchika's father SC Girhotra was forced to sell his house here, the society should take steps for the family to get back the house.
A number of students and teachers from Punjab Engineering College in Chandigarh also visited the family offering support.
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