Ex-SP linked to Pathankot case gets 10-year jail term for rape
- | Friday | 22nd February, 2019
GURDASPUR: Punjab Police's former superintendent (SP) Salwinder Singh was sentenced to 10 years' rigorous imprisonment by a local court in a rape case on Thursday. The court also fined him Rs 1.7 lakh. Salwinder also faces another case of sexual harassment filed by five policewomen.In November 2017, the Punjab government had ordered his compulsory premature retirement in view of the two FIRs against him along with five pending charge sheets in various cases of indiscipline.After the sentence was handed out, Salwinder told mediapersons he would move the Punjab and Haryana high court to get justice. The court had pronounced him guilty in the case on February 15.Salwinder was also quizzed in the 2016 Pathankot airbase terror attack, but the National Investigation Agency (NIA) had given him a clean chit.Salwinder was on August 3, 2016, booked under Section 376 of the IPC for allegedly raping a woman.Salwinder was conducting an inquiry against the woman's husband and allegedly took Rs 50,000 from her for clearing her husband's name and sexually exploited her as well.The then chief minister had ordered an inquiry in the case following a complaint by the woman's husband.
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