Former Chief Minister and Leader of the Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda has demanded an impartial investigation into the suicide case of IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar. He said on Thursday that no culprit should be spared and no innocent person should be harmed. It is the state government’s responsibility to ensure justice in this case.
In a statement, Hooda said that the law and order situation in the state has completely deteriorated. “In this context, the suicide of such a senior police officer is a very tragic incident. This incident has shaken the entire state. If such a senior police officer is not safe today, one can imagine the plight of ordinary citizens,” he added.
It is worth mentioning that Haryana IGP Y. Puran Kumar shot himself dead at his home in Chandigarh on Tuesday. He left behind an eight-page suicide note, accusing 10 senior and retired police officers of “blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation, and atrocities.”
His wife, IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar, currently posted as Commissioner and Secretary, Department of Foreign Cooperation, Government of Haryana, has filed a police complaint against the senior officers, accusing them of abetment to suicide.
“This is not a case of ordinary suicide, but a direct result of the systematic persecution of my husband — an officer from the SC community — by powerful and high-ranking officers who 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,” she stated in her complaint.
At around 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the IPS officer’s daughter found him dead in the basement of their home. The 2001-batch officer apparently used his service revolver to die by suicide. Later, an eight-page note was recovered that contained serious allegations against several senior police and administrative officers.
In his detailed suicide note, Kumar accused several serving and retired IAS and IPS officers of forcing him to take the extreme step. He wrote that all he expected was “equity of treatment.” “Instead of addressing the same, all the representations and complaints in this regard were ignored and are being used vindictively and in a revengeful manner against me in a mala fide way,” Kumar wrote.
Amneet P. Kumar, the wife of the deceased senior IPS officer, described his suicide note as a “document of a broken spirit.” “Justice should not merely be done, but be 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 said.