New Delhi: Union Law Minister Veerappa Moily says the government supports the PIL seeking death sentence for retired police officer S P S Rathore, who has been convicted of molesting a 14-year-old girl but got just six month-imprisonment as punishment.
“If necessary we will support it (PIL). It is simple as that but it should be properly done,” said Moily to CNN-IBN.
Rathore, a former Haryana director general of police, has been convicted of molesting Ruchika Girhotra 19 years ago and is now facing fresh charges of abetment to her suicide.
Moily told CNN-IBN that Rathore should have been booked for abetment to suicide for allegedly driving Ruchika to suicide.
He said the case against Rathore was strong and “fresh investigations can be conducted against Rathore. “All those people who conspired or abetted in this offence will be lined up as accused--that is possible and that is how this case has to be shown as a model case for the entire world.”
A court in Panchkula on Wednesday deferred till January 1 a decision on Rathore’s application for interim bail. The former DGP was on Tuesday evening booked by police in two cases of serious and non-bailable criminal charges including attempt to murder, criminal intimidation, forging evidence, wrongful confinement, fabricating false evidence and criminal conspiracy.
Ritika’s father, Subhash Chander Girhotra, has demanded death penalty for Rathore. "He has killed my daughter by misusing his official position. We want the death penalty for him," he said after meeting the Union Home Minister.
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