Law student accuses AIG Crime in Chandigarh of rape; case registered

PK Jaiswar
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, September 28

Following a probe conducted by IG (Crime and Women) Vibhu Raj, the local police on Friday booked AIG Randhir Singh Uppal on charges of rape, sexual harassment and other relevant sections of the Indian penal code.

Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police Lakhbir Singh confirmed the development.

“A case has been registered at Cantonment police station in this connection and further investigations are underway,” he told.

It is learnt that during a high-level meeting of senior police officials from all over Punjab in Chandigarh on Thursday, the DGP had asked the police commissioner to register a case in this regard.

A student of a local law college had alleged that the AIG (Crime), Randhir Singh Uppal, posted in Chandigarh, had been harassing her and making sexual advances for the past four months.

She alleged that her repeated pleas had fallen on deaf ears as he was not ready to relent. She also accused him of criminal intimidation.

The AIG had refuted the allegations while pointing out that the girl’s mother was known to him and her family urged him to keep a watch on her as she had fallen in a bad company.

He said he used to call her up and ask her to mend her ways. The victim, on the other hand, had handed over to the media as well as the police his recorded phone calls with her.

The case was registered after police commissioner SS Srivastava urged to shift the probe to a senior woman police officer as the victim hailed from Hoshiarpur and the accused was posted in Chandigarh. The probe was later marked to IG (Crime) Vibhu Raj.