A session’s court in Chandigarh has enhanced the sentence of former Haryana DGP SPS Rathore from six months to one-and-a-half years prison term for molesting 14-year-old Ruchika Girhotra.<br/><br/>Pronouncing the verdict in a packed court room, Additional District and Sessions Judge Gurbir Singh dismissed the appeal filed by 68-year-old Rathore challenging the six months jail term awarded earlier. The judge allowed the pleas of CBI and Ruchika's family for enhancement of his sentence. <br/><br/>The court directed that Rathore be taken to the local Burial Jail immediately following dismissal of his appeal and enhancement of the sentence after which he was taken into custody by the CBI. <br/><br/>The former DGP was sentenced to six months' rigorous imprisonment on December 21 last year by CBI Judge J S Sidhu for molesting Ruchika, a budding tennis player, in Panchkula on August 12, 1990. Three years after the incident, Ruchika committed suicide. <br/><br/>Reacting to the verdict, Law Minister M Veerappa Moily called for the tightening of laws to ensure that cases relating to sexual crimes are fast tracked. <br/><br/>Talking to media in New Delhi, he said, the enhanced punishment handed down to Rathore would send a clear cut message that use of power and authority to commit a crime would not go unpunished. <br/> <br/>