Amritsar Police on Friday registered a rape and sexual harassment case against its Additional Inspector General (AIG), Crime, Randhir Singh Uppal following a probe conducted by the Inspector General (Crime and Women) Vibhu Raj into allegations made by a law student in Amritsar.
The registration of case against Uppal came a day after the state Director General of Police Suresh Arora had reportedly asked the Police Commissioner for the same during a high level meeting of senior police officials from all over Punjab at Chandigarh on Thursday.
A case under Section 376, 376 D, 354, 354 C of the Indian Penal Code has been registered against the AIG on the victim’s complaint of raping her, said the Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADCP) Lakhbir Singh.
The complaint was received on September 17 and the police had marked a probe to IG Crime and Women Vibhu Raj to look into the allegations of harassment levelled by the victim against Uppal.
The victim had lodged a complaint with the cantonment police and also filed a complaint with the police helpline 181 the next day. A student at a local law college had alleged that Uppal, posted in Chandigarh, was harassing her and making sexual advances for the past four months. She alleged that the police are not entertaining her repeated pleas. She has also accused him of intimidation.
Refuting the allegations, AIG claimed that the victim’s mother was known to him and her family requested him to keep a watch on her as she had fallen in bad company.
The victim had a number of audio recordings of the conversation and Whatsapp chat with the AIG in which she is urging him not to harass her.
She had also made these recordings and chats viral on social media to press her demand.