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PIL against school for expelling Ruchika, victim of Haryana DGP's assault | A public interest litigation (PIL) will be filed against the Chandigarh based Sacred Heart School, where Ruchika Girhotra studied. The school had
expelled her under pressure from former Haryana Director General of Police (DGP)
SPS Rathore, the man who molested her. Senior Advocate Ranjan Lakhanpal has
claimed that a case will be filed against everybody involved in the Ruchika
molestation case, including the school for expelling her. "We will be seeking action
against the school also as to why she
was expelled, what were the reasons, and under whose pressure it was done,"
Lakhanpal
added. Ruchika Girhotra was a student of Class 10, when former Haryana DGP
Rathore
allegedly molested her in 1990. Rathore was then Inspector General of Police and
the head of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Federation. The school had claimed that
Ruchika
was removed on grounds of not paying the school fees in time, but her family was
not convinced. Ruchika's father, S C Rathore said: "Rathore used his influence.
One day the Principal called me and told that we are removing her from the school.
Don't send her to school any more." Teenager Ruchika, a promising young tennis
star had killed herself three years after the incident by drinking poison. Geetanjali
Giyatri, Ruchika's classmate and a former student of Sacred Heart said, "We had
heard that she was going abroad and we thought she had gone abroad after the
incident,
that's why she was not showing up. We had also heard that she had left school,
that's it." The school is tight lipped on the whole issue and is least interested
in talking about reasons for expelling Ruchika. |
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