Jalandhar, Oct. 16 -- The Jalandhar rural police have booked sub-inspector Bhushan Kumar, former Phillaur station house officer (SHO), for alleged inappropriate behaviour and making sexual advances towards the mother of a minor rape victim.

The case has been registered under Section 74(1) (physical contact and advances involving unwelcome and explicit sexual overtures) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 67(d) (guilty of sexual harassment in the course of duty) of Punjab Police Act, and other sections of the IT Act at Phillaur police station.

Punjab state women's commission has also taken cognisance of the matter. The panel has directed Jalandhar's senior superintendent of police to initiate criminal action against the erring police officials, ...