Punjab Government on Thursday reinstated its Inspector General of Police Gautam Cheema, facing disciplinary proceedings, with immediate effect. Cheema has been reinstated “without prejudice to the outcome of pending criminal cases and the departmental inquiry”.
Cheema was facing two cases registered in Mohali and was placed under suspension on September 13, 2014. He was booked for abducting a proclaimed offender Sumedh Gulati from the police custody on the night of August 26, 2014, in SAS Nagar.
Cheema and his aide Ajay Chaudhary were booked on August 30, 2014, under sections 365 (kidnapping), 342 (wrongful confinement), 452 (house trespass), 325 (voluntarily causing hurt), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 225 (resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) and 120B (criminal conspiracy) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Three days after he was booked for abduction, a case was registered against Cheema for outraging the modesty of a woman on September 2, 2014.