Rupan Deol Bajaj case information

The Rupan Deol Bajaj case or Rupan Deol Bajaj vs KPS Gill case was one of the most publicized, high-profile legal cases in India and remained in the media limelight for many years.

In this high-profile case, KPS Gill, at the time Director General of Police, Punjab, was held guilty of the charges of molestation. On 20 August 1988, the High Court of Punjab and Haryana upheld Gill's conviction under Section 354 (outraging the modesty of a woman) and Section 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult a lady) for his action against Rupan Deol Bajaj .^[1] Rupan Deol Bajaj was at that time an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (I.A.S) belonging to the Punjab Cadre. She filed a complaint against KPS Gill, saying that he had molested her modesty by patting her posterior during a party hosted on 18 July 1988 at the Chandigarh residence of then Punjab Financial Commissioner, S L Kapoor.^[2] She was at that time working as the Special Secretary, Finance, as an I.A.S. officer.^[3]

Her husband Mr. B.R. Bajaj, was a senior I.A.S. officer of the Punjab Cadre, had filed a complaint in the Court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate for the same offenses, described above against KPS Gill and was a party to the case.^[2]