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In Ruchika case our system of justice is the criminal
Rightly, there is great resentment against the retired Haryana Director-General of Police, SPS Rathore, getting off with a smile for his crime of molesting a budding tennis player Ruchika Girhota who felt so much humiliated that ultimately she committed a suicide. The culprit definitely is Rathore, but more than that is the system of criminal jurisprudence which we have inherited from the British and earlier invading regimes. Our further crime was to blindly adopt and accept this system which has nothing to do with the Indian ethos. It protects the criminal and punishes the victim. The alien governments imposed this system as it suited them the most to dig their feet deep in power to keep the country a slave of them. The judicial system we are continuing with today does not in any way suit the Indian way of life, her culture, traditions and ethos. It helps the criminal to get off with his crime with boldness and honour and leaves the aggrieved crying for justice which normally gets inordinately delayed and in a majority of cases ends up in denial of justice.
The latest instance is the way the lone Pakistani terrorist caught red-handed in killing dozens of innocent men and women in the 26/11 Mumbai attack is exploiting the present judicial system in India and making a fun of it. It is this strange system that is giving life to the Parliament attack case convict Afzal Guru sentenced to death by the highest court of the country about five years back. It looks as if the crime of treason, waging a war against the nation and killing hundreds of innocent men, women and children is not a crime but a childish act deserving no serious attention and punishment.
Coming to the Rathore case, the our system of justice did not only remain blind to the crime Rathore committed, but it turned deaf and dumb to the pleadings and prayers of Ruchika for justice. In the meantime, Rathore used his official position to create conditions under which she was expelled from the Sacred Heart School, Chandigarh where she was studying and numerous auto-theft cases were registered against her brother. Clearly, it was a case under which the victim was being ‘punished' for the ‘crime' of daring to open her mouth against so highly placed a person and seeking punishment to him for his crime. Rathore is the person who was paid out of public funds for performing his duty to protect the life, honour and property of the citizens in the democracy. Rathore's crime was more heinous because he not only failed to perform his duty as a citizen to respect the law of the land but also committed a crime himself. Further, he victimized the family and her brother to put pressure on her to keep silent lest she has to pay the price for reporting a crime and seeking punishment for the guilty. Ultimately, the law failed to provide justice to her and she finally succumbed to the weakness in law; she committed suicide to save her honour and protect further harassment of her family.
The law failed to stretch its so-called long hands to catch hold of. Rathore for the crime he had committed. It was only after great hue and cry and media reports that a case was slapped against him just for molestations and not for pushing her to commit a suicide. That the powers that be both at the State and at the Centre were protecting the crime of Rathore becomes more than obvious.
Last update : 27-12-2009 17:13
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