# Punjab Police Director General of Police vs State (Admn., U.T. Chandigarh)

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## Report card

By judgment dated 27 July 2005 in Criminal Appeal No. 1032 of 1998 (with Crl.A. No. 430 of 1999), the Supreme Court of India (Coram: K.G. Balakrishnan, B.N. Srikrishna, JJ.) affirmed the conviction of the Director General of Police, Punjab Police.

- Register number: CH 01 CW 0005
- Case reference: Criminal Appeal No. 1032 of 1998 (with Crl.A. No. 430 of 1999) / (2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104
- Court and date: Supreme Court of India (Coram: K.G. Balakrishnan, B.N. Srikrishna, JJ.), 27 July 2005
- Officer(s) at the material time: Director General of Police, Punjab Police
- Present service status: Not ascertained from the cited sources.
- Provisions invoked: Section 354 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860; Section 509 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Finding of the Court (extract): “we find no merit in the appeal preferred by the accused. The appeal is dismissed accordingly.” (at para n/a)
- Verdict, sentence and quantum: Conviction upheld. Sentence: imprisonment and fine.
- Present status of the proceedings: No further proceedings are recorded in the cited sources; the judgment is the concluded position shown.
- Source orders: [Judgment / order (primary source)](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1292562/); [Permanent link to this record](https://datalibertarian.in/babuwatch/incident/CW-2005-0007)

**Record:** CW-2005-0007 (compiler id CWC-0335); case SWCUSTOD-008
**Title:** Punjab Police Director General of Police vs State (Admn., U.T. Chandigarh)
**Court:** Supreme Court of India; judges: K.G. Balakrishnan; B.N. Srikrishna
**Case number / citation:** Criminal Appeal No. 1032 of 1998 (with Crl.A. No. 430 of 1999) / (2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104
**Judgment:** 2005-07-27 (2005, day precision)
**Incident date:** 1988-07-18 (1988)
**Place:** Chandigarh, Chandigarh; city town: Chandigarh; police station or unit: Punjab Police (then DGP); force: state_police
**Category:** Other misconduct
**Sub-category:** other
**Outcome:** Conviction upheld (conviction_upheld)
**Sections:** IPC 354; IPC 509
**Officers (gated display forms):** Director General of Police, Punjab Police (1 in record)
**Victims:** Chandigarh woman (1 in record)
**Sentence / compensation:** mixed
**Sentence type:** mixed (mixed)

The Supreme Court dismissed former Punjab DGP K.P.S. Gill's appeal (Crl. A. 1032/1998) and upheld his conviction under Sections 354 and 509 IPC for slapping the posterior of a woman senior IAS officer at a Chandigarh dinner party on 18 July 1988. The Sessions Judge had replaced the custodial sentence with release on probation and a Rs 50,000 fine (half to complainant), but the High Court in revision enhanced the fine to Rs 2,00,000 payable entirely to the prosecutrix plus Rs 25,000 costs — which the Supreme Court left undisturbed, noting the Rs 2 lakh lay in court deposit for disposal by the Punjab & Haryana CJ at the complainant's request (donation to a women's organisation). The Court also dismissed the complainant's appeal (Crl. A. 430/1999) seeking enhancement, noting Gill had completed probation without violation. The accused's conspiracy defence was recorded and rejected. Matters not addressed in the cited judgment text are not recorded here.

> we find no merit in the appeal preferred by the accused. The appeal is dismissed accordingly.

**Sources (1):** [indiankanoon.org](https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1292562/)
**Verification:** V2 · Externally reported
**Review:** Solo Staff combined review (one combined attestation) — not yet recorded
**admin category:** misconduct
**admin subcategory:** other
**allegations:** {'category': 'Other', 'primary': True, 'position': 'Material fact supported', 'position_explainer': 'Reliable material supports a specifically documented fact relevant to that allegation, not necessarily the full allegation, causation, intent, unlawfulness, or responsibility.', 'official_finding_relation': 'supports allegation'}
**anonymised:** True
**court quote para:** n/a
**display title redacted:** Punjab Police Director General of Police vs State (Admn., U.T. Chandigarh)
**followup history:** {'date': '2026-09-19', 'scope': 'Round-8 full re-verification: published record re-checked against the judgment text (outcome, officers, quote, key facts) plus methodology-compliance pass', 'method': 'skills-guided adversarial re-verification of the published record against the judgment text (reverify/t1-*/adversarial-8.jsonl)', 'result': 'wrong_facts', 'corrections_applied': \['summary'\]}
**followup status:** checked
**institutional response:** {'date': None, 'action_type': 'Conviction', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Trial court (as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment)', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The trial court convicted the accused police personnel, as recorded in the Supreme Court of India judgment.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation', 'source': '(2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}; {'date': '2005-07-27', 'action_type': 'Order issued', 'status': 'Concluded', 'authority': 'Supreme Court of India', 'independence': 'External', 'legal_effect': 'Binding', 'description': 'The Supreme Court of India dismissed the appeal and upheld the convictions of police personnel.', 'disposition': 'Conviction · Supports allegation (appellate affirmance; trial conviction separate card)', 'source': '(2005) 6 SCC 161; AIR 2005 SC 3104', 'recheck': 'Not yet re-checked.'}
**last checked:** 2026-09-19
**link checked per url:** {'url': 'https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1292562/', 'link_checked': None}
**retracted:** {"is_retracted": false}
**service:** police
**source assessment:** {"established": null, "basis": null}
**status:** current
**subcategory display:** other
**tier:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**tier badge:** Externally reported
**tier history:** Tier A — Externally reported or officially recorded
**verdict:** accept
**verdict note:** Supreme Court dismissed Gill's appeal, upholding the ss.354/509 conviction (probation, Rs 50,000 fine); matches conviction_upheld.
**verification badge:** V2 · Externally reported
**verification status:** V2
**victims redacted:** {'age': None, 'gender': 'female', 'descriptor': 'a woman'}
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Status: Conviction upheld.

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