#Breaking News: Top Haryana Cops Booked After IPS Officer’s Suicide Note

Chandigarh Police have registered an FIR against Haryana's Director General of Police Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak's Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarnia, along with several other senior officers, for abetment to suicide and violations under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The charges stem from the death of Additional Director General of Police Y. Puran Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer from the SC community, who allegedly shot himself with his service revolver in the basement of his Sector 11 residence on Tuesday, October 7.

Kumar's 9-page suicide note, recovered from his pocket and titled "Continued blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities by concerned senior officers of Haryana since August 2020," lays bare years of alleged torment by at least 12 named officials, including three retired IAS officers and nine IPS colleagues. The note, which doubles as his will bequeathing everything to his wife, details a litany of grievances starting in 2020 when he visited a temple at an Ambala police station, sparking "caste-based slurs" and relentless persecution. He accused former DGP Manoj Yadava of initiating the harassment, continued by Kapur through denied arrears, false affidavits blocking housing, and the abrupt withdrawal of his official vehicle in November 2023.

The officer's body was discovered by his daughter around 1:30 p.m., sending ripples through the police fraternity. Kumar, recently transferred on September 29 to head the Police Training Centre in Rohtak's Sunaria Jail while on leave, had a history of flagging irregularities: In April 2024, he returned his official car citing discriminatory allotments; mid-year, he wrote to Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini about illegal promotions bypassing Home Ministry rules and caste bias delaying SC officers' increments. Despite multiple pleas to the Chief Secretary, no action was taken, exacerbating his "immense pain" – including missing his father's final moments due to unsanctioned leave.

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The FIR, filed late Wednesday at Sector 11 police station under Sections 108 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita alongside SC/ST Act provisions, follows a blistering complaint by Kumar's wife, IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar, who was in Japan on a delegation led by Saini when the news broke. Racing back, Amneet – commissioner and secretary in Haryana's Department of Foreign Cooperation – penned an emotional letter to the CM demanding justice and their immediate arrest. "This is not ordinary suicide but systematic persecution of my husband, an SC officer, by powerful seniors who mentally tortured him," she wrote, vowing to withhold post-mortem consent until accountability. She recounted ignoring her 15 frantic calls the day before after receiving the note and will, her "soul crying for justice" amid "years of humiliation."

Amneet described the note as a "document of broken spirit," exposing a conspiracy including a "frivolous" October 6 FIR in Rohtak aimed at framing Kumar. "Justice must be seen to be done – for my shattered family, my children's answers, and my husband's decades of service," she urged. Chandigarh SSP Kanwardeep Kaur confirmed the probe, with CFSL teams scouring the scene; Kapur expressed faith in the investigation, denying wrongdoing.

The case has ignited national outrage, amplifying calls for reform in caste-ridden bureaucracies. Lok Sabha Opposition Leader Rahul Gandhi decried it on X as a "symbol of deepening social poison," questioning: "When an IPS officer endures caste humiliation, imagine ordinary Dalits' plight." As investigations deepen into the note's 15 named figures – including IPS officers Amitabh Dhillon and Sanjay Kumar – and past complaints, this scandal threatens to expose systemic rot in Haryana's power corridors, where administrative bias allegedly claims even the elite. For Kumar's grieving family, the fight for dignity endures.

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