PATIALA: Police is yet to take any action of the complaint of 27-year-old HIV-infected woman who has lodged a complaint through one social activist with the Bahadurgarh police post here after she was deserted by her in-laws and is now being discriminated against by residents of Nawa Mahatpur village near here, where she has taken refuge with her daughter at her parent's house.

The police post in-charge Sukhdev Singh told I that police has called the village panchayat and has obtain written undertaking that they will not discriminate her in future. As per police point of view there was no need of registration of the case as Villagers have already given the undertaking, he added.

In her complaint the social activist Preet Dhillon said that woman, widow of truck driver, was abused and discriminated against by her in-laws after she was diagnosed HIV positive nine years ago.

Her in-laws threw her out of the house immediately after her husband's death six years ago. It didn't matter that I had acquired the infection from him," she said. She has been living with her daughter at her parent's house at Nawa Mahatpur ever since.

The woman, who was an employee as an HIV/AIDS counselor at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana. The job was given to her with nine other women with suffering from same disease with the intervention of Punjab chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, said Preet Dhillon.

Social activist Preet Dhillon, admitted that the woman was not an exception as HIV positive people were being discriminated against and the health authorities had been turning a blind eye to their plight.