Ruchika – Indian Law Allows Child Molester to be Let Off

31Dec09

These are historical times we live in. These are times when a high ranking police officer is allowed to molest a kid, be tried for two decades and then lawfully be allowed to walk free, simply because he’s grown gray hair on his head.

Ruchika was 14 when she was molested. And when protested, she was caught in a battle between the political prowess of the Rathores and her little family – she was molested, three years later expelled from school, her brother falsely accused of stealing cars. Overwhelmed by what her family was going through, she committed suicide.

During the two decades it took for a sentence, Rathore who had all fun in his younger years satiating on a little kid young enough to be his daughter, what he probably missed with his wife, grew from height to height and retired as the well respected police officer. And after pronouncement of the sentence, Rathore still had the balls to say “It’s a very old issue. Forget about it now.”

Not surpising, for a rich 67 year old former policeman who has seen all the wealthy (and sexual) pleasures of life this nirvana-ish trash talking might just be his way of spending a peaceful no hassles post-retirement life; who cares if he stomped over a few families on the way, or molested and murdered a few kids. After all, the law gives so much respect to old age, that even the molestation of a kid forcing her into suicide becomes a little scar on the cheek that would heal in time.

The pronouncement note quotes section 354 IPC and says, “the prolonged trial and the age of the convict can be considered while passing the order on quantum of sentence.”

Ok, so the law is an ass. But on this day, humanity has sunk to a new low where the elderly age of the convict is reason-enough to brush aside the tortures of a 14 year old. Rathore’s wife Abha, who was the defence counsel protecting the husband who had broken all shards of morality, said, “He has already undergone valve surgery and he requires medical help.” So we have a case where an old convict seeks medical help to remain alive after abetting the suicide of a kid thereby depriving her of an entire life.

Not for the first time, this sentence has revealed the massive chinks in the Indian Legal System. The law prosecuted Rathore for molesting a young girl, but does not prosecute him for raping the trust the common man had on the Indian civil officers.

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