Ruchika molestation will be re-investigated as model case: Moily
December 29th, 2009 - 7:33 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, Dec 29 (IANS) The molestation and suicide of teenager Ruchika Girhotra will be re-investigated and tried as a “model case” to demonstrate that nobody can “subvert the rule of law”, Law Minister Veerappa Moily said Tuesday.
“This could be a model case, where we will have to demonstrate to the entire country that the rule of law is utmost and it will apply to everybody and rule will have to be properly demonstrated - that is the will power of the nation,” he told private news channel NDTV on a day that marked Ruchika’s 16th death anniversary.
A special Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court in Chandigarh had Dec 21 held Haryana former director general of police S.P.S. Rathore guilty of molesting 14-year-old Ruchika in Panchkula town Aug 12, 1990 and sentenced him to a six-month prison term. Rathore was immediately granted bail.
The budding tennis player had committed suicide three years after the incident.
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