By IANS,
New Delhi : A fast track justice system was needed, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MP Brinda Karat said in the Rajya Sabha Tuesday while referring to the 1990 molestation of a 14-year-old girl in Chandigarh for which a former Haryana director general of police was sentenced to six months in prison.
Home Minister P. Chidambaram and Law Minister Veerappa Moily were present in the house, she pointed out.
Former Haryana director general of police (DGP) S.P.S. Rathore was Monday sentenced to six months in prison for molesting 14-year-old budding tennis player Ruchika Girhotra, who committed suicide three years later following continuous harassment of her and her family.
Rathore was allowed bail by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) court special judge J.S. Sidhu immediately after his sentencing.
The former DGP can now appeal before a higher court against the CBI court order. Sources close to Rathore said that he would appeal against his sentencing.
“The sentence is very less even though we are happy that he (Rathore) has been found guilty and sentenced by the court,” said retired Haryana government official Anand Prakash, whose daughter was the lone eyewitness to the Aug 12, 1990 molestation of Girhotra in Haryana’s Panchkula town, 10 km from state capital Chandigarh.