Chandigarh: The Chandigarh police on Friday booked AIG Randhir Singh Uppal on charges of rape, sexual harassment and other relevant sections of the Indian penal code.
A case has been registered under sections 354, 376, 506, 498 and 71 IT Act at Cantonment police station in this connection and further investigations are underway.
Police are conducting raids to nab AIG, a police team raided a house on Ajnala road at Amritsar.
A student of a local law college had alleged that the AIG (Crime), Randhir Singh Uppal, posted in Chandigarh, had been harassing her and making sexual advances for the past four months.
She alleged that her repeated pleas had fallen on deaf ears as he was not ready to relent. She also accused him of criminal intimidation.
The AIG had refuted the allegations while pointing out that the girl’s mother was known to him and her family urged him to keep a watch on her as she had fallen in a bad company.