In a significant development, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the UT Chandigarh Police — formed to investigate the circumstances surrounding the suicide of high-profile Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar — has invoked Section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act in the FIR.
Section 3(2)(v) of the Act provides that any offence under the Indian Penal Code, punishable with imprisonment of ten years or more, committed against an SC/ST individual shall be punishable with life imprisonment and a fine.
Senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of the deceased IPS officer, had earlier written to the police, requesting that the “diluted sections of the SC/ST Act in the FIR be amended” and asserting that Section 3(2)(v) was the appropriate provision applicable in this case.
On Sunday, Chandigarh Inspector General Pushpendra Kumar, who is heading the six-member SIT, confirmed to a news agency that Section 3(2)(v) has now been added to the FIR.
The initial FIR filed by Chandigarh Police, based on a ‘final note’ left by the deceased officer, included charges under IPC Section 108 read with 3(5) (abetment of suicide) and Section 3(1)(r) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
On Saturday, October 12, the Haryana government transferred Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya, one of the officers named by Amneet P Kumar in her plea, as part of the developing investigation into her husband’s alleged abetment to suicide.
An official order stated that IPS officer Surinder Singh Bhoria had been appointed as the new SP of Rohtak and had assumed charge. The transfer order for Bijarniya will be issued separately.
In her letter to SSP Kanwardeep Kaur, Amneet specifically demanded that the accused be named in the FIR. She identified Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya among those allegedly responsible for her husband’s death.
On the same day, Haryana ministers Krishan Lal Panwar and Krishan Kumar Bedi, Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, and Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister Rajesh Khullar visited the bereaved family. The meeting was seen as an attempt to persuade the family to consent to a post-mortem and cremation of the late officer.
Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini also assured that strict action would be taken against anyone found guilty, regardless of their position. Several ministers, senior officials, and politicians from across the country visited Amneet P Kumar on Saturday to express their condolences.
In the ‘final note’ allegedly left behind by Y Puran Kumar — a 2001-batch IPS officer who reportedly shot himself at his residence on October 7, 2025 — named eight senior IPS officers, including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and then Rohtak SP Bijarniya, accusing them of harassment and character assassination.
Known for his proactive stance on officers’ rights and issues of seniority, in particular those belonging to SCs, STs and OBCs, Puran Kumar was serving as Inspector General at the Police Training Centre (PTC) in Sunaria, Rohtak, at the time of his death. His wife has alleged that his death resulted from a pattern of “systematic persecution” by senior officials.
On October 10, 2025, the Chandigarh Police constituted a six-member SIT, led by IG Pushpendra Kumar, to ensure a “prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation” into the circumstances of the officer’s death in a time-bound manner.