Sunday, May 16, 2010

In an exclusive news report in the Hindustan Times of Saturday, May 15 the paper claims to have knowledge that the Central Bureau of Investigations or CBI is going file a report absolving S.P.S. Rathore, former Haryana Director General of Police of all further charges. Rathore has already been convicted of molesting 14 year old Ruchika Girhotra in 1990 and sentenced to a derisory 6 months in prison. He has been accused of mounting such a ferocious campaign of terror against the family of the girl to force her to withdraw her complaint that she committed suicide. The Girhotra family allege that Rathore fabricated records related to Ruchika's postmortem and got his police force to register false cases of car thefts against Ruchika's brother who was also a teenager at the time. The brother was repeatedly picked up and beaten up by the police. Now the CBI says that it has found nothing to substantiate these claims. It says that there are inconsistencies in the statements of the family. Of course, there are. After 20 long years of waiting for justice and being subjected to unrelenting torture is it any surprise that there are, so called, inconsistencies. The cases of car thefts against the brother were thrown out by the court. Surely there must be court records to show what evidence the police provided. Has the CBI questioned all the police officers involved in the case? From Quatrochi to the Provident Fund case to the secretary murder case the CBI never seems to find any evidence of wrongdoing against any powerful person. The BJP has accused it of acting as enforcers in the recent ' cut motion ' in parliament. Surely it is time to save to billions of rupees of taxpayer money for a useless organisation. Let us get rid of the CBI.

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