Chandigarh, May 28 :     Rupan Deol Bajaj, the IAS officer who won a sexual harassment case against supercop K.P.S. Gill, today alleged that the former Punjab police chief's sympathisers had launched a witchhunt against her son. Eighteen-year-old Ranjit Bajaj is in custody on charges of kidnapping, robbery and violation of the Arms Act. Rupan, a principal secretary in the Punjab government, said the alarm raised by the police over her son's arrest amounted to a 'conspiracy of sorts'. She said Ranjit had suffered stab wounds on his chest in an attack on April 19. The row allegedly involved a girl. 'He had to have 94 stitches and two of his fingers, too, were severed,' Rupan said. She added that it was strange that Ranjit's attackers were arrested a day after he surrendered. A day before Ranjit surrendered, two police personnel in plainclothes allegedly fired at his car. Referring to the 'incident', Rupan said: 'The massive manhunt launched by the police over five to six days when Ranjit was seeking bail and the shots that were fired at him were frightening. The shots fired at Ranjit's car could have killed him. Equally worrying is the fact that the two persons who fired at him - a tall man and a woman wearing jeans - were in civilian clothes and later identified as belonging to the Chandigarh police.' Ranjit surrendered on May 23, days after the police registered a case on a complaint by another teenager, Sunny Garg, that Ranjit had abducted him, beaten him up and robbed him of valuables. 'He did not surrender earlier because he was seeking bail. But the way the police handled the case by ordering a manhunt was not proper. Ranjit is no terrorist. All the cases against him do not lead to a death sentence,' Rupan said. Claiming that the two police officers who fired at Ranjit could be seen strolling outside the Sector 17 police station, where he is lodged, Rupan said it was a 'potentially dangerous situation'. She added that she had met the Chandigarh administrator Lt Gen. (retired) J.F.R. Jacob for reassurance that her son should not be harmed. 'I have also demanded action against the two police officers who shot at Ranjit to arrest him,' she said. Rupan wondered why the police had to order a manhunt. 'I had even met Chandigarh SSP Parag Jain and asked him to withdraw the orders as they were potentially very dangerous,' she said. 'I am not blaming Gill for what has happened with Ranjit. I feel that his sympathisers are behind the manhunt that was launched for his arrest. Ranjit is a delinquent. He is not a dreaded criminal,' Rupan added. Rupan had accused Gill of harassing her sexually at a party here in the eighties. She went to court and, after a long-drawn battle, won the case. Gill was handed a suspended prison sentence. The matter is now in Supreme Court. Referring to the case, Rupan said from July 1988 to October 1995, when the Supreme Court ordered the supercop's trial, she had to go through numerous problems. 'But I faced all of them. Now this hysteria over Ranjit that seems to have been created deliberately.' Rupan alleged that the police were not registering their FIR alleging that Sunny had made a false complaint. She also claimed that the weapon recovered from Ranjit's car was a dummy pistol. Despite the dealer's certificate, the police had registered a case under the Arms Act and sent it to the forensic laboratory. 'Their report confirms what we have been saying,' she added.