Seventeen years after he was accused of misbehaving with a woman IAS officer at a private party in Chandigarh, the Supreme Court today upheld the conviction of Indian Hockey Federation president ‘supercop’ K.P.S. Gill for the offence.A bench of Justices K.G. Balakrishnan and B.N. Srikrishna upheld the August 20, 1998 order of the Punjab and Haryana HC that confirmed Gill’s conviction by a trial court in August 1996.The court, however, rejected pleas by the woman officer, Rupan Deol Bajaj, for restoring the three-month prison term handed down to Gill by the CJM. The CJM had, in 1996, sentenced Gill to three- months’ RI and Rs 700 fine. The Sessions Court upheld the conviction, but ordered that he be released on a three-year probation.
