'SPS Rathore attacked outside court: Do you think it is justified to go against law?'

FORMER HARYANA DGP SPS Rathore, convicted in the Ruchika molestation case, was injured on Monday, February 8 2010, when a student of the prestigious NID posing as a journalist stabbed him thrice in the face with a pocket knife outside a local court. Such incidents can happen when cases like this which demand immediate delivery of justice are delayed.

Haryana DGP SPS Rathore molested Ruchika Girhotra in 1990 when she was fourteen years old. The girl killed herself after three years when she was expelled from the school and her brother was arrested allegedly on the cases of theft and robbery. Now after more than ten years, still the case is pending in the court of law just because the case involves powerful people. If it would have been any ordinary man in place of the DGP then the case would have been solved during that particular year itself.
Now, when there is all the necessary evidence against DGP Rathore, then why the case is still taking so much time for being solved. It is such shameful and pathetic situations when judiciary finds difficulty in taking decisions that motivate ordinary people to come up and take action. This time when 29-year old Utsav Sharma, a resident of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, who is pursuing a post-graduate diploma course in animation and film design at the National Institute of Design(NID) stabbed Rathore, he highlighted this issue in a grave manner.
The cases which involve powerful people or elites usually take several years to get solved or sometimes go unheard. In such cases, people have no choice but to come forward and take the decision themselves, whether right or wrong.

So I think it is justified to go against law in such cases. This is not a first case there are several other cases like the Jassica Lal murder case, Nitish Katara murder case etc where people have protested, campaigned and fought for justice. According to me our country’s judicial system needs to be improved. Rathore got only six months imprisonment and then appealed for bail in Supreme Court. Justice delayed is justice denied. Rathore should be awarded with life time imprisonment or the death sentence.