Haryana IPS Officer's Suicide: Wife Claims FIR Omits Key Details in Alleged Caste Discrimination Case

Y Puran Kumar allegedly took his own life at his Chandigarh residence on Tuesday.

The spouse of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who reportedly died by suicide after alleging "mental harassment" by senior officers in his final note, has claimed the filed FIR contains "incomplete information".

Amneet P Kumar, a senior Haryana government bureaucrat, addressed Chandigarh's Senior Superintendent of Police on Friday, stating that the accused individuals' names were not "mentioned clearly" in the FIR copy she received.

"The document lacks the necessary details required for a fair and transparent investigation," she emphasized, following the FIR that named Haryana's police chief Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak police head Narendra Bijarnia, among others, for abetment to suicide and violations under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in connection with the 2001-batch officer's death.

The case was registered following a 'final note' left by the 52-year-old officer, who allegedly shot himself at his residence. In this note, he named "senior officers" and detailed years of "mental harassment and humiliation."

"As per my complaint, the names of the accused (1) Shatrujeet Kapur (2) Narendra Bijarnia persons have not been entered in the FIR, that was trigger point for his suicide. As per the prescribed FIR document format, all accused should be clearly listed under Column No. 7. It is therefore requested that the FIR be amended to accurately reflect the names of all accused individuals in the proper section," Amneet Kumar wrote to the senior police official.

She also pointed out that the section cited under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the FIR is "diluted," stating that Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, as amended, should be applied in this case.

The IAS officer insisted these sections must be properly added to ensure "correct legal provisions" are applied.

Additionally, she noted that she had not received copies of the "final note" recovered from her husband's pocket or the one found in his laptop bag.

"I have not received any copy of the said "Final Notes" to compare it with the version referenced in the FIR," she stated.

On Thursday, Amneet Kumar had sought Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini's intervention to ensure an FIR was filed against those named in the "suicide note".

In his eight-page "final note," Y Puran Kumar accused 10 senior and retired police officers of "blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation, and atrocities," according to sources.

Kumar, who was recently appointed as Inspector General of the Police Training Centre (PTC) in Rohtak, indicated that the discrimination and harassment began when he visited a temple at 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," Kumar wrote.

He alleged that Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and IPS officers Amitabh Dhillon and Sanjay Kumar continued the caste-based discrimination and harassment, relating to official vehicle allocation and accommodation.

Kumar also mentioned "mischievous anonymous and pseudo anonymous complaints" being generated against him.

"This is the extent of targeted vindictive and revengeful mental harassment, humiliation and atrocities being committed against Scheduled Caste officers like me... thereby compelling me to take this extreme decision today," he wrote.

The officer stated he had been informed that DGP Kapur ordered the withdrawal of a police officer temporarily attached to him, and that he had been warned "to be careful and cautious" as DGP Kapur and other IPS officers were "totally geared up to harm me and my family."

He held the mentioned officers "responsible for compelling, abetting and forcing me to take this extreme step due to their actions."

"Even during the interim period I thought over carefully and was convinced that I cannot bear this continued and concerted conspiracy of concerned to continue with caste-based discrimination, public humiliation, targeted mental harassment and atrocities any longer and hence this final decision to end it all," he wrote.

Kumar noted that despite making numerous representations to authorities seeking "equity of treatment," his complaints were ignored and "being used vindictively and in a revengeful manner against me in a malafide manner."