Chandigarh: Sub-inspector with Haryana Police arrested for ‘sexually harassing’ woman

According to the complainant woman, who was working at the health department in Chandigarh, she went to the sub-inspector’s residence in Sector 23-B two months ago for an official purpose. At his residence, Sukhwinder Singh touched her inappropriately, the woman alleged in her complaint. According to the woman, the sub-inspector harassed her sexually on several other occasions.

On Tuesday, she went to the house of the accused and told the matter to his wife. However, on Wednesday morning, the accused and a woman came to her and started quarrelling with her. The woman thus filed a formal complaint with the local police.

Soon after the complaint was lodged, members of an employees’ union along with Mayor Rajesh Kalia reached at the Police Post of Sector 22, and demanded for arrest of the accused.

The accused was charged under sections 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 354 A (sexual harassment), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Police Station Sector 17, Chandigarh