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Chandigarh, October 13 (IANS) In a rapidly changing political development, Leader of Opposition (LOP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met late Haryana IGP officer Y. Will express condolences at Puran Kumar’s residence.
Seven days after the ‘suicide’ of the IPS officer, the body is still in the mortuary. Gandhi will arrive at 5.15 pm on October 14 and meet Amneet P Kumar, widow of the late IPS officer.
The family had refused permission for postmortem examination or cremation until the arrest of Haryana DGP Shatrujit Kapoor, ousted Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia and other officials named in Kumar’s “last note”.
Inspector General Puran Kumar allegedly shot himself with his service revolver at his Chandigarh residence on October 7 and left a “last note”. Even seven days after the suicide, the last rites of the police officer have not been performed.
The standoff continues between Puran Kumar’s wife, IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar and the Haryana government over the arrest of DGP Shatrujit Singh Kapoor and Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarania.
The victim’s wife, senior Haryana cadre bureaucrat Amneet P. Kumar, has sought justice for her husband in a letter to Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, who also visited her residence to express his grief.
The letter, which was marked as urgent and confidential, was written three days earlier, more than 48 hours after her husband’s death, despite what she described as “gross injustice” and “complete administrative inaction”.
In a nine-page “suicide note”, Puran Kumar allegedly accused nine serving IPS officers of Haryana Police, one retired IPS officer and three retired IAS officers of “caste-based discrimination”.
The serving officers included DGP Kapoor and Superintendent of Police Bijarnia. Describing the death as extremely heart-wrenching, state opposition leader Bhupendra Hooda said in Rohtak, “Our only demand is that the culprits should be punished. It is the responsibility of the government to provide justice. The government should not shy away from its responsibility.”
–IANS
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