Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 25

UT DSP Sukhwinder Pal Singh Sondhi, who has been indicted by the Internal Complaints Committee (ICC) of the Chandigarh Police for causing sexual and mental harassment to a woman Assistant Deputy Commandant of the Home Guards Department, will face disciplinary action as the UT Administrator has given his nod to the report submitted by UT DGP Sanjay Baniwal for appropriate action against the DSP.

The ICC was headed by DSP Anjitha Chepyala.

The complaint against the DSP was filed by the victim on October 24, 2017. The incident took place on October 23 last year. The ICC comprised three members — Inspector Kulvir Kaur, Reena Yadav and a social activist.

The victim, in her complaint to the police, had alleged that the DSP asked her to come to his personal house in Zirakpur and also created a “bad atmosphere” for her at the workplace.

The ICC had earlier probed the same complaint and had disposed of it.

Sondhi terms it shocking, says was given clean chit earlier

DSP Sukhwinder Pal Singh Sondhi claimed that he was earlier given a clean chit by the committee that had disposed of the complaint against him. “Now, the same committee has contradicted its own report and submitted another report, which is shocking,” he said.

The DSP claimed that the Police Department had sent the reports of all sexual harassment complaints received by it in 2016, 2017 and till June 2018 and the findings of the complaint against him to the UT Social Welfare department, which further submitted these to the Ministry of Women and Child Development. “The report mentions that the complaint against me has been disposed of,” he added.