Justice R L Anand while disposing of Gill's revision petition against the January 6, 1998 judgment of the Sessions Court, upheld his conviction under Sections 354 and 509 of the IPC, holding him guilty of outraging the modesty of senior Punjab IAS officer Rupan Deol Bajaj, by slapping her `bottom', at a dinner party hosted by the then state Home Secretary S L Kapur at his residence.

Justice Anand, however, modified the January 6, 1998 order of the Session Judge Amar Dutt, by reducing his probation period from three years to one year, upto January 5, 1999. The judge also converted the `supervisory' probation of Gill to `non-supervisory'. The judge, however, has directed Gill, not to commit any offence and maintain peace during the probation period, while remaining silent on the Sessions Court directive to Gill for `not drinking in public'.

While reducing the probation of Gill, Justice Anand has further directed Gill to execute a personal bond of Rs 20,000, together with two sureties of the like amount, for the period of one-year probation, starting January 6, 1998.

The High Court has also directed Gill to pay compensation of Rs 2 lakh to the prosecutrix Rupan Deol Bajaj and another Rs 25,000 to the Chandigarh Administration as cost of proceedings. However, Justice Anand did not agree with the Sessions Court order granting compensation of Rs 25,000 to B R Bajaj, the husband of the prosecutrix Rupan Deol Bajaj, and struck the same down while further modifying the order.

The UT Sessions Judge Amar Dutt had in his order of January 6, 1998, while upholding Gill's conviction by UT Chief Judicial Magistrate Darshan Singh on August 6, 1996, had released him on three-years' supervisory probation. The Sessions Court had also directed Gill to pay a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to Rupan Deol Bajaj and another Rs 25,000 to her husband B R Bajaj, also a Punjab-cadre IAS officer. Besides, Gill was also directed to pay a compensation of Rs 25,000 to the Chandigarh Administration as cost of proceedings.

While Gill had filed the present revision petition in February this year, the trial in the case could start only after Rupan Deol Bajaj approached the Supreme Court which remanded the case and had asked the UT CJM to complete the trial within six months.