Ex-addict alleges DSP forced her into drugs, raped her

JALANDHAR: Punjab police on Thursday suspended the DSP at the centre of a controversy caused by allegations made by a young Ludhiana woman that he pushed her into drug addiction and raped her.

Taking note of the 26-yearold’s allegations made at a press conference in Jalandhar on Thursday, chief minister Amarinder Singh asked DGP Suresh Arora to ensure a proper inquiry into the matter and to take stern action against the DSP, if found guilty.

IPS officer Anita Punj, who is director of Punjab Police Academy at Phillaur, has been directed to conduct a preliminary inquiry into the woman’s allegations and submit her report within a week, the Punjab police spokesperson said.

Daljit Singh Dhillon, former international hockey player last posted as DSP (headquarters) at Ferozepur, who was named by the former addict, took a call from TOI on Thursday, but when asked about his reaction to the allegations made at the press conference, he cut the call and did not respond to a detailed SMS about the same.

The former addict also alleged that the DSP would ask her to get more young unmarried women clients for sale of heroin. The woman, whose name is being withheld to protect her identity, has also written a letter to the chief minister detailing the allegations against the DSP. Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira and LIP MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, who accompanied the former addict at the press conference, said an inquiry into the nexus between police officers and drug mafia should be probed by a sitting high court judge. They called for immediate removal of DGP Arora and DGP (Intelligence).

DSP showed me how to take heroin, alleges woman

The Ludhiana woman in her letter to CM said she first met Dhillon at his Tarn Taran residence in the summer of 2013 and has described details like location and internal details.

She alleged that the officer served lunch to her and her companion and then placed heroin before her and said it was fad among young women to sniff it.

“His aide named Ashok then brought foil paper etc and then the police officer told me the method of its consumption. He also gave me some quantity of the contraband,” she said, adding, “He told me that he had some recovered drug and asked me to bring it in contact with young unmarried women.”

The woman again went to his residence after some days with a female and she alleged that he took her to a room upstairs “where he gave me the drug and then also raped me.”

The survivor revealed that she became addicted to heroin and then met Balraj, from a well-off family who also was an addict. He committed suicide when he had very strong withdrawal symptoms during Dera Sacha Sauda violence in August 2017.

After that, her family got her admitted to a Kapurthala de-addiction centre with help of MLA Bains. She also suffered a miscarriage due to her addiction, but she has recovered and is living a drug-free life. “I want that young men and women should come out of this web of drugs as I it is rebirth for me,” she said.