Haryana IPS officer’s death: Why investigators sent notice to Puran Kumar’s wife

The Chandigarh Police has issued a notice to IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar, the wife of late IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, asking her to hand over her husband's laptop to the investigation team.

 

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged suicide of Kumar believes that the laptop may contain vital information, including the original draft of the suicide note.

 

The probe team wants to send the device to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) for digital examination to verify the authenticity of the suicide note, which Kumar sent to some of his colleagues before his death, reports said.

 

The SIT also aims to examine how many people received the mail and the exact time it was sent. The investigators believe that the forensic examination of the laptop would help in establishing the sequence of events leading up to the officer’s death.

 

Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer, allegedly shot himself dead on October 7. In his suicide note, he accused eight senior IPS officers of "blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities”.

 

Meanwhile, the state government sent State DGP Shatrujeet Kapur on leave on Monday, days after Narendra Bijarniya, the then Rohtak Superintendent of Police, was transferred.

 

Both Bijarniya and Kapur have been named in Kumar’s suicide note, and the late officer’s family has been demanding their arrest.

 

The incident has sparked a political firestorm in the state, with the opposition Congress stepping up its attack on the BJP dispensation and Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, demanding action on the matter.

 

Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is likely to meet the family of Kumar on Tuesday.

 

 

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