HC stays disbursement of relief in Gill-Bajaj case

CHANDIGARH, May 25: The Punjab and Haryana High Court today granted stay on the disbursement of compensation and litigation costs of Rs 2.5 ...

CHANDIGARH, May 25: The Punjab and Haryana High Court today granted stay on the disbursement of compensation and litigation costs of Rs 2.5 lakh to the complainant, Rupan Deol Bajaj, in the much-publicised "bottom-slapping" case involving former Punjab Director General of Police K.P.S. Gill.

Justice Sarojnei Saksena of the Court, while taking up Gill’s application for non-disbursement of the compensation amount and litigation costs of Rs 2.5 lakh, already submitted by him in the court, granted stay till the revision petition of Gill in the case is finalised. The case was meanwhile adjourned for further hearing.

Gill had earlier filed a revision petition in the High Court against the judgment of the UT District and Sessions Judge, Amar Dutt, releasing him on probation and directing him to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakh in the posterior slapping case and litigation costs of Rs 50,000 to Rupan Deol Bajaj, half of which would go to her husband B.R. Bajaj, a senior Punjab IAS officer.

Gill was also placed under the supervision of Chief Probation Officer for three years and had been restrained from consuming intoxicants in public places and parties, as per the order of the District and Sessions Judge. Gill was earlier sentenced to three-months’ rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 700 by the UT chief judicial magistrate Darshan Singh, against which Gill had appealed before the Sessions Court then.

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