An FIR has been registered in connection with the suicide of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, naming Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur, Rohtak Police Chief Narendra Bijarnia, and 12 other officials. They are charged under sections related to abetment of suicide and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The 2001-batch officer died on Tuesday by allegedly shooting himself with his service revolver at his Sector 11 residence in Chandigarh. His daughter reportedly found his body in the basement. In an eight-page suicide note, Kumar accused senior officers of prolonged “mental harassment” and caste-based discrimination.
The FIR comes a day after Kumar’s wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, filed a complaint against the officers, alleging her husband was subjected to caste-based slurs and systematic persecution. She also sent a letter to Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Saini demanding justice. Amneet was in Japan as part of a delegation led by the Chief Minister when her husband died.
In her complaint, Amneet described the suicide as the result of years of targeted harassment and humiliation, emphasizing that the note names several officers whose actions allegedly pushed her husband to the brink. She stressed that justice must be done and seen to be done, highlighting the impact on her family and the dignity of honest officers.
Kumar’s note details that the discrimination and harassment began in 2020 during a visit to a temple near an Ambala police station. He named former DGP Manoj Yadava and IAS officer Rajeev Arora (retd), citing incidents such as denial of earned leave to visit his ailing father, and stated that complaints to senior officials went unaddressed.
Reacting to the tragedy, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi called Kumar’s suicide a “symbol of deepening social poison” and highlighted the caste-based oppression he endured. Gandhi said, “If an IPS officer suffers humiliation due to caste, imagine the conditions faced by ordinary Dalit citizens.”
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