Kanwar Pal Singh Gill

He and his team have been accused of committing countless excesses in the name of stamping out terrorism in the Punjab. Human Rights organisations have testomonies of thousands of Sikh victims of police brutality, rape, torture, killings in fake encounters under his supervision.

In the mid-1990s, a senior female civil servant from Punjab, Rupan Deol Bajaj, sued him successfully for sexual harassment. Mr Gill had to pay a hefty fine and was sentenced to three years in prison which was later reduced to probation.

He is hailed as supercop by some rightwing radicals in India while others argue he, along with others, should stand trial for war crimes against humanity.