Her name is Rupan Deol Bajaj.
She was an IAS officer of the Punjab cadre serving as Special Secretary Finance. One of the most senior women in the Punjab government in 1988.
On the night of July 18, 1988, she attended a dinner party at the Chandigarh residence of Punjab’s Financial Commissioner SL Kapoor.
Also at that party was KPS Gill. The Director General of Police, Punjab. The most powerful police officer in the state.
Around 10 pm, he walked up to her and ordered her to get up and come with him. She turned to leave.
He slapped her on her posterior in front of the other guests.
She filed a complaint the very next day.
What followed was 17 years.
The police submitted a report favouring Gill. The High Court quashed her FIR. The same officer who reviewed her complaint had already given an opinion in Gill’s favour before acting as a judicial officer in the same case.
She went to the Supreme Court.
Her own mother told her to cry over it privately and move on. She received death threats. She was given punishment postings.
She fought anyway.
In 1995, the Supreme Court restored her complaint and directed prosecution. In 2005, the final verdict came. Gill was convicted under Section 354 and Section 509 of the IPC for outraging her modesty. His three month jail sentence was converted to probation. He was fined Rs 2 lakh.
She declined to accept the compensation. The court ordered it be donated to women’s organisations.
In 2010, she wrote to the government demanding they take back the Padma Shri given to KPS Gill.
The man who slapped her was never jailed for a single day.
The woman who fought him spent 17 years doing it.
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