Enquiries revealed that her dues have been cleared with the intervention of Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. Sources close to her family revealed that her son had also left her.

Posted as Naib-Tehsildar (agrarian) with charge of Ludhiana and Sangrur districts, Jaspal Kaur reiterated the charges while talking to mediapersons this morning. Patiala Divisional Commissioner Jasbir Singh Bir had ordered a probe into the circumstances that forced her to attempt suicide.

Narrating her tale of woes, Jaspal said she was not only humiliated by her seniors but efforts were made to physically exploit her middle-level government officials every time she approached them for the release of her salary.

Flanked by activist of Universal Human Rights Organisation led by its president Satnam Singh Dhaliwal, Jaspal said her husband was killed in the 1984 riots after which she came to Punjab with her children. "Seventeen years ago, I got the government job in the revenue department. During the first eleven months, I continued to get my salary only to be discontinued for the next 15 years of my life," she said. She alleged that her repeated pleadings brought further humiliation to her as her seniors did not clear her dues and blackmailed her into doing their biddings.