New law must come on sex offences

In view of the public outcry and intense media focus in Ruchika molestation case, the Union Government has been forced to think of promulgating new law on sex offences. Union Government even pushes for death sentence to retired DGP SPS Rathore of Haryana in Ruchika molestation case. After 19 years of trial, Rathore was let off lightly for the heinous crime he committed by molesting the 14 years old girl Ruchika Girhotra that led to her suicide in 1993. She was driven to suicide by his molester Rathore because the entire police machinery, political leadership of Haryana helped him weaken the case against him. It was only because of intense media campaigning and public outcry at the meagre punishment to Rathore for his heinous crime of molestating the young and promising girl nineteen years ago, fresh serious initiatives have begun to put the accused Rathore behind bars. The two fresh FIRs have been lodged against Rathore and it is most likely that he will be arrested soon and every aspect of the case would be looked into afresh against him. It is no doubt that Haryana government was shielding the influencial police officer because the victims Girhotra family had no political god father. Ruchika molestation case also exposes how politicians exert their influence to shield the corrupt and criminal officer. Rathore deserves to be punished regorously for the crime he committed 19 years ago. He should have been dismissed from police service and put behind the bars immediately. But due to the deliberate laxity of the Haryana police, it took nine years in lodging FIR against the accuse ex-DGP Rathore. What the Haryana government was doing all these years. The Union Government must also take this deliberate laxity of police machinery of Haryana seriously. How cruelly the policemen behave can be seen in the harrassment of Ruchika Girhotra family by them under the instruction of the accused police officer. They lodged several false FIRs against Ruchika’s brother Ashu who was only 16 years old at that time.All credit go to social activists and intense media coverage that awakened both the Centre and the state to act afresh against the accused Rathore. The Policemen are considered to be the protector of citizens. But it is beyond imagination that when they turn the killers themselves, what will happen? The police will continue to behave inhumanly as long as their nexus with political masters is in place. So, the need of the hour is to break the nexus between politician and police. There are innumerable number of girls in the country who are suffering like Ruchika at the hands of monstrous policemen but as those cases go unnoticed, their crimes remain under the carpet. But this only becomes possible because of the nexus between politicians and policemen in the country.