Chandigarh: Gurdaspur court on Thursday pronounced a punishment to former SP Salwinder Singh in two different cases. While punishment of 10 years was pronounced in sexual abuse case, another punishment of 5 years was given to him in a corruption case. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs 50000 on Singh.
Although the punishment of 15 years has been granted but both the terms will run concurrently, accounting to 10 years in total.
Gurdaspur court had convicted Salwinder on February 15 in sexual abuse case.
Salwinder has been punished for abusing his position to demand sexual favours. He had demanded sexual favours from the wife of an accused in a rape case, which was being probed by Salwinder as the then SP of Gurdaspur.