"A five-year-old would not have been raped if there was proper security in the capital," the judges said today, referring to a case that triggered four days of street protests after a child was kidnapped and raped in a room right below her family's apartment. The police had later admitted that it did not send search teams to the apartment building, and had offered her father Rs. 2,000 as a bribe to keep quiet about his daughter's ordeal. She is still in hospital.
Earlier this month, the government decided to provide Mr Ambani, who heads Reliance Industries, full-time security from armed commandos.
The move was sanctioned by the Home Ministry two months after a letter threatening to harm Mr Ambani was hand-delivered to his office in Mumbai, allegedly from the banned Indian Mujahideen militant group.
The "Z category" top-grade security given to the billionaire is usually reserved for prominent political leaders.
(PTI/NDTV)
