 Following this election he became head of the Prosperous Armenia parliamentary faction and a member of the Committee on the Protection of Human Rights and Public Affairs in June 2007.On October 1, 1979, by the verdict of the Judicial Board of the Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Armenian SSR, Judge A.Under Sargsyan's presidency, Tsarukyan was found guilty of gang rape and sentenced to imprisonment under Article 112 իմ 2 of the Criminal Code of the Armenian SSR for 7 years and Article 144 2 2 for 4 years.