The woman who three years ago withdrew sexual assault allegations against former Brampton councillor Gurpreet Dhillon, wrote in a letter the City has had since 2023 that she was coerced and coached to make the false accusation.
Dhillon sent a statement to The Pointer this week detailing the contents in the letter the woman wrote and signed in the fall of 2023, describing that she acknowledged she had been “coached and coerced into making false allegations” when she attended a Brampton trade mission to Turkey in 2019 that Dhillon also attended.
In April of 2024 The Pointer obtained a memo from the City of Brampton’s head lawyer, Sameer Akhtar, informing council members that the woman had recanted her story, and that a letter from her withdrawing her allegations had been sent to City officials in 2023 along with a legal notice from Dhillon demanding public statements be made acknowledging the withdrawal of all allegations against him.
He also demanded that a 2020 report by Brampton’s controversial integrity commissioner Muneeza Sheikh be permanently removed from the City website. In it, Sheikh claimed evidence that has since been withdrawn by the woman, proved Dhillon’s guilt, and she recommended the maximum penalty against the former councillor for violating the City’s Code of Conduct, the only set of rules a municipal integrity commissioner can use when making their non-judicial decisions, which are not legal rulings.
Dhillon has denied the allegations from the beginning...
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