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| CBI’s Shopian findings may come under cloud after Ruchika episode | | |
ABID SHAH
NEW DELHI, DEC 29: Findings of the Central Bureau of Investigation into the death under suspicious circumstances and alleged rape of two young ladies in Shopian are going to be affected badly by the recent disclosures in Ruchika’s case.
The CBI’s credibility as an impeccable investigating agency is facing a grave challenge by the turn of events in the Ruchiks Girhotra case, involving the former Director General of Haryana Police SPS Rathore.
A former Director of the CBI Joginder Singh has been critical of investigations against Rathore besides other former CBI officials who too have decried the way the probe was conducted leading to a delayed conviction after 19 years of the incident in which the teen aged girl, Ruchika, from Chandigarh was molested by the then Haryana Police official who later became chief of the civil police of the State.
About Ruchika’s suicide out of shame at the time of her brother’s arrest allegedly at the behest of Rathore, the former CBI Joint Director RM Singh has disclosed that he had included the abetment to suicide charge against Rathore in his report following investigations in the shocking Haryana incident.
Singh has also accused Rathore of passing veiled threats and getting him (Singh) removed from the proceedings in the case.
Though the Union and Haryana Governments are trying hard to redeem the fast eroding credibility of not only the Haryana State Police but also the CBI in the wake of a special CBI court passing as mild a sentence against Rathore as six months imprisonment by moving to withdraw the coveted police medal given to Rathore after he had become a suspect in the Ruchika case, it, nevertheless, is going to cast its shadow on similarly sensitive cases that have evoked public outrage in the recent past.
The murder of two women of Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir after alleged abduction and rape during last summer where CBI finally conducted a probe giving clean chit to the police officers suspected to be behind the case is also one such case.
There have been widespread protests in Shopian and elsewhere in the Kashmir Valley after the CBI report in the case was submitted in the High Court of Jammu and Kashmir as it absolved the police personnel earlier arrested and pointed fingers at doctors, lawyers and prosecution witnesses, putting them in the dock for trying to implicate those who were accused before.
These accused persons let off by the CBI probe belong to Jammu and Kashmir Police whose one Senior Superintendent of Police along with a few other personnel of the force was recently sent to jail in another murder case of Jammu for allegedly destroying evidence and changing the weapons used in the crime to allegedly oblige accused persons in the case.
As reports of sloth, coloured and biased approach and vendetta mount against police from innocent citizens in the wake of the Ruchika case not only in Haryana or Jammu and Kashmir but also from every State with hardly any exceptions, the Union Home Ministry is contemplating to set new guidelines that may lead police to treat every complaint, including those against policemen or their officers, as First Information Reports and act upon them.
The Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has recently remarked in one of his talks before Intelligence Bureau of officials here that “a bad police constable is worse than no police constable”. He was proposing a restructuring of internal security system trough his talk. Thus, his response to a situation where not just a police constable but also top level police officials are caught in a vortex of controversy is going to be watched more keenly than ever before.
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