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

IPS officer Y Puran Kumar allegedly died by suicide in his home and his body was found by his daughter on October 7 in Chandigarh. (Image: Sourced)

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.

An FIR has also named several other senior IAS and IPS officers, including Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi. The complaint, lodged by the officer’s wife, led the Chandigarh Police to name multiple top bureaucrats and police officials in the case.

Those named in the FIR include IAS officers Anurag Rastogi, T.V.S.N. Prasad (former Chief Secretary), and Rajeev Arora (former Additional Chief Secretary). The list of IPS officers features Shatrujit Kapoor (DGP), Manoj Yadav (former DGP), P.K. Agrawal (former DGP), Kala Ramachandran (Principal Secretary), Sandeep Khirwar, Amitabh Dhillon, Sanjay Kumar, Mata Ravi Kiran, Shivas Kaviraj, Pankaj Nain, Kulwinder Singh, and Narendra Bijarnia. The FIR alleges that these officials were involved in or negligent toward circumstances that may have contributed to the officer’s death.

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.