Bajaj case: SC upholds KPS Gill’s conviction

Seventeen years after he was accused of misbehaving with a woman IAS officer at a private party in Chandigarh, the Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of Indian Hockey Federation president ‘supercop’ K.P.S. Gill for the offence.

A bench of Justices K.G. Balakrishnan and B.N. Srikrishna upheld the August 20, 1998 order of the Punjab and Haryana HC that confirmed Gill’s conviction by a trial court in August 1996.

The court, however, rejected pleas by the woman officer, Rupan Deol Bajaj, for restoring the three-month prison term handed down to Gill by the CJM. The CJM had, in 1996, sentenced Gill to three- months’ RI and Rs 700 fine. The Sessions Court upheld the conviction, but ordered that he be released on a three-year probation.