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Chandigarh, October 10 (IANS) Chandigarh Director General of Police (DGP) Sagar Preet Hooda on October 7 appointed Indian Police Service (IPS) officer Y. A six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) was formed on Friday to investigate the alleged suicide by Puran Kumar.
A day earlier, the Chandigarh Police had filed a First Information Report (FIR) with abetment to suicide and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, based on the IPS officer’s “last note”, naming Haryana DGP Shatrujit Singh Kapoor and Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarnia among 11 serving and retired officers for allegedly harassing her. Him.
Earlier in the day on Friday, Kumar’s wife Amneet P Kumar, also a senior bureaucrat in the state, wrote to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kanwardeep Kaur questioning the “incomplete information” in the FIR and demanded that it be corrected “to accurately reflect the names of all the accused”.
He said that “weak sections of the SC/ST Act” have been added to the FIR and it needs amendment.
Additionally, Haryana officials representing the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, led by Resident Commissioner D. Suresh, posted in Delhi, met senior Chandigarh Police officials and demanded an impartial and time-bound investigation into the matter.
As per the orders of DGP Hooda, the SIT has been formed to investigate the FIR registered under relevant sections of the Indian Justice Code (BNS) and SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The SIT will be headed by IGP Pushpendra Kumar, with SSP Kanwardeep Kaur, SP (City) KM Priyanka, DSP Charanjit Singh Virk, SDPO (South) Gurjit Kaur, and Inspector Jaiveer Singh Rana as members.
The SIT will collect evidence, interrogate witnesses, seek expert opinion and prepare a final report in a time-bound manner. Interestingly, he did not mention the deadline for the SIT to submit its report. But the DGP’s directive stressed that “in view of the seriousness of the case, the investigation should be prompt, impartial and comprehensive”.
–IANS
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