DSP among two Punjab Police officials dismissed
Chandigarh, July 2: Two Punjab police personnel, including Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Daljit Singh Dhillon, have been dismissed from service over serious allegations of pushing women into drugs, a police official said.
The dismissal orders of Dhillon, who was posted as DSP Ferozepur, were issued by Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Monday while Head Constable Inderjit Singh was dismissed by Commissioner of Police Jalandhar.
Dhillon was placed under suspension on June 28 following charges of pushing a Ludhiana woman into drug abuse, while Inderjit Singh had been under suspension since September 2017 in the wake of similar charges by a Jalandhar woman, who had also accused him of sexual exploitation on pretext of marriage.
"The dismissal orders of Dhillon came after legal examination of the fact-finding inquiry conducted by Anita Punj, Director, Punjab Police Academy, Phillaur, and based on the statement of the concerned woman," a police spokesman said on Monday.
Dhillon has been booked by police on charges of rape and various sections of the NDPS Act.
"The officer was found indulging in highly undesirable and morally corrupt activities while posted at Tarn Taran, and, misusing his official position and power vested in him as a gazetted police officer by raping a girl and alluring her into drugs," the spokesman said.
The spokesman said that the Jalandhar woman had raised serious allegations against Inderjit Singh on four occasions, though she had retracted her statement in each case saying either that a compromise had been affected or it was given under a misunderstanding. She alleged that she had been pushed into drugs by him.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
