Ex-Punjab SP gets 10 years RI for rape
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gurdaspur:22.02.2019
Punjab Police’s former superintendent (SP) Salwinder Singh was sentenced to10 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a local court in a rape case on Thursday. The court also fined him ₹1.7 lakh. The court had pronounced him guilty in the case on February 15.
Salwinder was also quizzed in the 2016 Pathankot airbase terror attack, but the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had given him a clean chit.
Salwinder was on August 3, 2016, booked under Section 376 of the IPC for allegedly raping a woman. Salwinder was conducting an inquiry against the woman’s husband and allegedly took ₹50,000 from her for clearing her husband’s name and sexually exploited her as well. The then chief minister had ordered an inquiry in the case following a complaint by the woman’s husband. Salwinder also faces another case of sexual harassment filed by five policewomen.
In November 2017, the Punjab government had ordered his compulsory premature retirement in view of the two FIRs against him along with five pending charge sheets in various cases of indiscipline.
Earlier in 2017, NIA had given Salwinder a clean chit in the Pathankot airbase attack. Then Gurdaspur SP, Salwinder’s name had cropped up after he claimed he was abducted near the India-Pakistan border by Pakistani terrorists who later carried out an attack on the Pathankot Air Force station on January 2, 2016. He was interrogated by the NIA and subjected to polygraph test, but was later given clean chit by the premier agency.
After the sentence was handed out, Salwinder told mediapersons he would move the Punjab and Haryana high court to get justice.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Gurdaspur:22.02.2019
Punjab Police’s former superintendent (SP) Salwinder Singh was sentenced to10 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a local court in a rape case on Thursday. The court also fined him ₹1.7 lakh. The court had pronounced him guilty in the case on February 15.
Salwinder was also quizzed in the 2016 Pathankot airbase terror attack, but the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had given him a clean chit.
Salwinder was on August 3, 2016, booked under Section 376 of the IPC for allegedly raping a woman. Salwinder was conducting an inquiry against the woman’s husband and allegedly took ₹50,000 from her for clearing her husband’s name and sexually exploited her as well. The then chief minister had ordered an inquiry in the case following a complaint by the woman’s husband. Salwinder also faces another case of sexual harassment filed by five policewomen.
In November 2017, the Punjab government had ordered his compulsory premature retirement in view of the two FIRs against him along with five pending charge sheets in various cases of indiscipline.
Earlier in 2017, NIA had given Salwinder a clean chit in the Pathankot airbase attack. Then Gurdaspur SP, Salwinder’s name had cropped up after he claimed he was abducted near the India-Pakistan border by Pakistani terrorists who later carried out an attack on the Pathankot Air Force station on January 2, 2016. He was interrogated by the NIA and subjected to polygraph test, but was later given clean chit by the premier agency.
After the sentence was handed out, Salwinder told mediapersons he would move the Punjab and Haryana high court to get justice.
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