Haryana: Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur’s name filed in FIR in the suicide case of IG Y Puran Kumar, senior IPS officer. The FIR filed on the basis of suicide note of Puran Kumar, which 12 names he has referred in his suicide note.

In his suicide note mentioned names of some IPS officers are retired, and others are in service and are in top position in Haryana police department. Y Puran Kumar is a 2001-batch officer, died by suicide when he shot himself at his Sector 11 Chandigarh residence on Tuesday. In an eight-page suicide note, he accused senior officers of mental harassment.

DGP  Shatrujeet Singh Kapur, head of Rohtak police, Narendra Bijarnia, among others for abetment to suicide and booked under the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in connection with the death of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.

According to the police sources the officer allegedly shot himself with his service revolver, and his body was found by his daughter in the basement. Amneet P Kumar, an IAS officer, W/o. Y Puran Kumar filed a police complaint naming the two officers for subjecting her husband to caste-based slurs and sought their immediate arrest.

She also submitted a letter to the Chief Minister seeking justice for her husband. Amneet, the commissioner and secretary of the Haryana government’s Department of Foreign Cooperation, was in Japan as part of a delegation led by Chief Minister Nayab Saini when her husband died by suicide.

In her letter to CM, she stated that “I am not only pleading for my family, but for the value of every honest officer’s life and dignity. This is not a case of ordinary suicide but a direct result of systematic persecution of my husband an officer from SC community by powerful and high-ranking officers who have used their positions to mentally torture him, ultimately driving him to such an extent that he was left with no other option but to take his life”. While official narratives suggest suicide, my soul cries for justice as a wife witnessing years of systematic humiliation, harassment and persecution inflicted upon my husband by senior officials, she added.

The eight-page suicide note is a document of broken spirit, she said. The note lays bare the names of numerous officers whose relentless actions pushed him to the edge. Justice should not merely be done, but seen to be done – even for families like ours, shattered by the cruelty of the powerful. My children deserve answers. My husband’s decades of public service deserve dignity, not silence, she added.

The officer’s suicide note says that the caste-based discrimination, public humiliation, and targeted mental harassment and atrocities against him started when he visited a temple in an Ambala police station in 2020.

The caste-based discrimination, mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities started by Sh Manoj Yadava, the then DGP Haryana, continues against me till date by other officers of Haryana cadre. Sh Rajeev Arora, IAS (retd) the then ACS Home did not even sanction me earned leave on time due to which I could not even visit my father for the last time before his death, this causes me continued immense pain and mental harassment and is an irreparable loss till date. This was also intimated to all concerned in writing, including to the then Chief Secretary of Haryana, but no action was taken.