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JALANDHAR: Punjab police on Thursday suspended a DSP who allegedly pushed a Ludhiana woman 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 conduct an inquiry and take stern action against the DSP, if found guilty.

Daljit Singh Dhillon, posted as DSP (headquarters) at Ferozepur, took a call from TOI but hung up when asked for his reaction to the allegations. The Ludhiana womansaid she first met Dhillon at his residence in 2013. She alleged that the officer served lunch to her and then placed heroin before her and said it was a fad among young women to sniff it. “ He taught me the method of its consumption.

He also gave me some quantity of the contraband,” she said. “He told me that he had some drug recovered in raids and asked me to offer it to young unmarried women.” The woman again went to Dhillon’s residence after a few days.

She alleged that the DSP took her to a room upstairs “where he gave me the drug and then raped me.” The survivor revealed that she slowly became a heroin addict but she has recovered and is living a drug-free life now.

