Kp Gill

[lsingh]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4721555.stm

Last Updated: Wednesday, 27 July, 2005, 13:28 GMT 14:28 UK

'Super cop' guilty of harassment

Gill has been ordered not to drink in public

India's Supreme Court has upheld the conviction for sexual harassment of a policeman who became a national hero.

"Super cop" KPS Gill must pay more than $4,500 compensation to a female civil servant who said he slapped her bottom while drunk at a 1988 cocktail party.

The Supreme Court ruled out a three-month prison term for Gill.

Gill, now retired, denied the charges. He shot to prominence as Punjab police chief in the early 1990s when he led efforts to crush Sikh militancy.

Alcohol ban

Gill was head of Punjab police when he molested Rupan Deol Bajaj, a senior female bureaucrat who worked for the elite Indian Administrative Service.

He was convicted 10 years later of "outraging her modesty".

The Sessions Court in Punjab sentenced him to three months in prison in 1998.

That was later commuted to a year on probation by the state high court, which ordered Gill to pay compensation to his victim and a fine.

Upholding the conviction, two Supreme Court judges on Wednesday ordered that the officer pay the compensation as well as $500 in legal expenses.

Ms Bajaj refused to accept the compensation and said the money should be donated to a women's welfare home.

Gill was also ordered not to drink in public by the Supreme Court.

But the judges said a jail term was not necessary as he had already served probation.

Human rights

The BBC's Abhishek Prabhat in Delhi says Gill enjoyed iconic status for his success in stamping out Sikh militancy.

He was dubbed a one-man army and feared by criminals across the country, earning him the "super cop" nickname.

Three years ago he was called out of retirement as Gujarat security adviser after religious riots swept the state.

Gill, who now heads the Indian Hockey Federation, has been a controversial figure for years.

He was accused of excesses in Punjab by human rights groups.

[das_1]

Quite amazing

this <admin-profanity filter activated> kills, tortures, rapes, molests sikhs in thousands, nothing happens yet when he touches a bottom of a policewomen he gets done...how sad is that

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

i think he touched a bahmani that's why he got in trouble, cause when he put his hands on the izzat of singhnees he was awarded medals.

[Harmeet Singh]

On what ocassion was that party being held?

[Raju]

i think he touched a bahmani that's why he got in trouble, cause when he put his hands on the izzat of singhnees he was awarded medals.

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Rupan Deol is a Singhnee herself.

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

i think he touched a bahmani that's why he got in trouble, cause when he put his hands on the izzat of singhnees he was awarded medals.

111133[/snapback]

Rupan Deol is a Singhnee herself.

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uh i beg to differ buddy she is wearing sandoor, bindi, and a mangal sutra in a pic on india tribune(don't get much more hindu than that). She is a hindu. It's rupan deol bajaj, bajaj's are hindus too.

PS :if your saying she's a sikh because her last name is deol, well dharminder, sunny deol and his family are arya smajis and say they are hindus not sikhs. deol is a jatt caste name and does not mean a person with the name Deol is a sikh. Just as Cheema is the last name of sikhs and Muslims who claim jatt heritage.

[mann_kaum_layee_qurbaan]

No mistake about it bro.

I think you said you were christian, so you may not be aware what real singhees look like.

[S1ngh]

it wasn't actually the slap that i heard.. it was something more degrading stuff he did in public..

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Dhaliwal opposes CIDA grant to think tank

By ROBERT MATAS

Thursday, July 28, 2005

VANCOUVER -- Former federal cabinet minister Herb Dhaliwal remembers listening on Parliament Hill to a human-rights advocate from India talking about atrocities in Punjab province while Karam Pal Singh Gill was in charge of the police authority in the area.

After the human-rights advocate returned to India, police picked him up. No one heard from him again, Mr. Dhaliwal said yesterday in an interview.

"There is no doubt about it. When he was in charge of police enforcement in Punjab, there were unprecedented human-rights violation at that time . . . tremendous brutality, no rule of law, . . . killings. It's a very sad part of history, what happened in Punjab," he said.

"I think people will be very unhappy, and some may even be outraged that Canadian money is going to [the] program . . ."

In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Gill denied any human-rights violations occurred in the Punjab under his watch.

The Canadian International Development Agency, a federal body, confirmed earlier this week that it is providing $85,000 to the Institute of Conflict Management. Mr. Gill is president of the New Delhi-based think tank. The funds are to be used for work that includes a study on the underground terrorist economy in northeastern India.

A controversial figure in India, Mr. Gill has been widely praised and vigorously condemned for his aggressive efforts in the late 1980s and early 1990s to wipe out Sikh secessionists in Punjab. Thousands -- some estimates say tens of thousands -- of people were killed during the campaign to root out Sikh separatism. More than 1,000 bodies were reported to have been disposed of without proper identification or a post-mortem.

Mr. Gill's police force was believed to be responsible for the shooting death of Talwinder Singh Parmar, the alleged mastermind of the 1985 Air-India disaster that killed 331 people. In a commentary after two defendants were acquitted in Canada of participating in the bombings, Mr. Gill wrote that democracies, and particularly the judicial system in democracies, were incapable of coming to terms with the threat of terrorism.

Mr. Gill was convicted of sexual harassment in 1998 for slapping the buttocks of a female civil servant while drunk at a cocktail party, Indian media have reported. The conviction was upheld earlier this week in a decision of India's Supreme Court. But in recent years, he has rebuilt his reputation as an expert on terrorism. As a consultant on terrorism, Mr. Gill has advocated brutality as a solution, Mr. Dhaliwal said.

CIDA should reconsider its support for the Institute of Conflict Management, he said.

Helena Guergis, the Conservative Party critic on international co-operation, said CIDA should undertake more thorough background checks before approving financial support for foreign institutions.

CIDA spokesman Clément Bélanger told The Globe and Mail earlier this week that the agency dealt with others at the institute and did not check into Mr. Gill's record.