Haryana Cop's Final Note Before Suicide: Caste-based Humiliation, Mental Harassment And A DGP Named

Haryana Police officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly took his own life, has left behind a note detailing the severe mental harassment and humiliation he endured from senior officers. Kumar's note accuses them of caste-based discrimination and public humiliation, mentioning uninvestigated complaints against him, sources told PTI. The 52-year-old, known for advocating officer rights, was found with a gunshot wound at his home.His bureaucrat wife, Amneet P Kumar, who rushed to Chandigarh from Japan, where she was a part of a Haryana government delegation, on Wednesday claimed in a police complaint that her husband's death was the result of "systematic persecution" by high-ranking officers.She requested an FIR against Shatrujeet Kapur, DGP Haryana,

and another senior IPS officer, under Section 108 BNS, 2023 (abetment of suicide) and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.Both officers could not be reached on the phone despite attempts.Physical and electronic evidence, including the weapon Puran Kumar allegedly used to shoot himself, was seized by a team from the Central Forensic Sciences Laboratory (CFSL), Chandigarh police said on Tuesday.A "will" and a "final note" were also found at the scene and seized, police said.

What did the Haryana cop's final note say?

Sources said that Kumar left an eight-page typed and signed 'final note', which he titled "Continued blatant caste based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities by concerned senior officers of Haryana since August 2020 which is now unbearable."The note alleges caste-based discrimination, public humiliation, targeted mental harassment, and atrocities the officer was subjected to, the sources told PTI.It mentions a "mala fide generation of mischievous anonymous and pseudo-anonymous" complaints against him, floated and processed by some officers for months together to publicly humiliate and embarrass him and thereby damage his reputation, they said.Kumar, who comes from the Scheduled Caste community, named a few officers who allegedly blatantly misused their official positions and authority and compelled him to kill himself, according to sources. Despite complaints against the officers, they were not investigated, the letter claims, sources said.The note mentions an instance where a bureaucrat, now retired, did not sanction his earned leave on time, due to which he could not visit his father before his death.Kumar, in the note, says that he raised these issues before many officers, "which are a matter of record," sources said. The note alleges that some officers left no stone unturned in harassing him by their "discriminatory, caste based mental harassment and humiliation in public view.""... I thought over carefully and was convinced and I cannot bare this continued and concerted conspiracy to continue with caste-based discrimination, public humiliation, targeted mental harassment and atrocities any longer and hence this final decision to end it all," it reads, according to the sources.Kumar alleges that no action was taken when he complained against a fellow officer, "which clearly is proof of prejudicial treatment against me."He alleges that a top-ranking IPS officer from the state made certain comments in his annual performance appraisal report for the period ending March 31, 2024, which were "factually incorrect, purely imaginary, unsubstantiated, loaded with his personal prejudice and in violation of principles of natural justice."He says he approached a senior bureaucrat, requesting him to intervene, but in vain, sources said.The note mentions that while allotting official accommodation to him in Panchkula, Kumar was subjected to additional rules, while in another incident, in November 2023, his official vehicle was withdrawn.A 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Kumar was found with a gunshot wound in a room in the basement of his Sector 11 house. He was known for his interventions in matters related to the rights of officers and seniority and was recently posted as the Inspector General of the Police Training Centre (PTC) in Rohtak's Sunaria.(With PTI inputs)