Haryana Top Cop, Others Booked After Being Named In Senior IPS Officer’s Suicide Note

A First Information Report (FIR) has been registered against Haryana’s Director General of Police, Shatrujeet Singh Kapur, and Rohtak Police Chief Narendra Bijarnia, among others, in connection with the death of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.

Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer aged 52, was found dead on Tuesday at his residence in Chandigarh’s Sector 11. Police said he died from a gunshot and that a firearm was recovered from the scene.

The FIR, numbered 156, has been filed under Section 108 read with 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, at Sector 11 Police Station, Chandigarh.

Authorities confirmed that the case is under investigation.

According

to sources, Kumar left behind an eight-page note, typed and signed, in which he accused several senior officers of mental harassment, caste-based discrimination, and public humiliation.

The note reportedly detailed how he was subjected to “continued blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, and atrocities” since August 2020.

Family’s Allegations

Kumar’s wife, Dr Amneet P Kumar, a senior bureaucrat who was in Japan on an official visit at the time, returned immediately after the incident.

In her police complaint, she alleged that her husband’s death was the result of “systematic persecution” by senior officers who misused their authority to mentally torture and humiliate him.

“This is not a case of ordinary suicide but the outcome of relentless harassment by powerful officers who drove him to the brink,” her complaint stated.

She urged that an FIR be lodged against DGP Kapur and another senior IPS officer under abetment to suicide provisions and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Dr Amneet Kumar also reportedly declined permission for the post-mortem until action was initiated against those named in her complaint.

Chandigarh Police have seized the alleged weapon and other electronic and physical evidence. A team from the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) has been tasked with examining the materials.

Sources said the note also mentions the fabrication of anonymous and pseudo-anonymous complaints against Puran Kumar, allegedly circulated by some senior officers to tarnish his reputation and career.

Despite repeated representations, no departmental inquiry was initiated, the note claims.