CHANDIGARH: Amneet P Kumar, a senior IAS officer and the spouse of senior Haryana IPS officer and Inspector General of Police Y Puran Kumar, who passed away by suicide on Tuesday, has filed a complaint with the Chandigarh Police against Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarnia.
Amneet, an IAS officer from the 2001 batch, filed a complaint with the Station House Officer at Sector 11 Police Station in Chandigarh on Tuesday evening. She requested that a case be initiated under BNS Section 108 (abetment to suicide) and the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against DGP Kapur and SP Bijarnia, and called for their arrest.
She notes that my husband's distress was evident, as shown by the many complaints he filed, which he mentioned in his suicide note, due to facing caste-based discrimination. She also mentioned that my husband had wisely understood and told me that a plan was being orchestrated under the leadership of DGP Haryana Shatrujeet Kapur, and he would be wrongfully accused in a baseless and deceptive complaint through falsehoods.
She claimed that her husband's death was not a typical suicide but rather the outcome of systematic harassment by influential and senior officers. These individuals, she alleged, exploited their authority to mentally torment her husband, an officer from a Scheduled Caste community, pushing him to the point where he felt he had no choice but to end his life.
Amneet, who serves as the Commissioner and Secretary for the Haryana government's Department of Foreign Cooperation, was visiting Japan with a delegation headed by Chief Minister Nayab Saini when her husband, Y Puran Kumar, tragically took his own life by shooting himself at their home in Sector 11, Chandigarh.
According to sources, a suicide note spanning eight pages and titled 'Continued blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities by concerned senior officers of Haryana since August 2020 which is now unbearable' was found by the police. In this note, Kumar reportedly identified 13 senior officers, comprising 10 IPS and three IAS officers, as responsible for harassment.
He claimed that the prejudice and embarrassment started during the period of the previous Director General of Police in Haryana and have persisted to the present. He further mentioned that a former Additional Chief Secretary delayed approving his earned leave, preventing him from seeing his father one last time before his passing.
Kumar, an officer from the 2001 cohort, was transferred to the Police Training College in Sunaria, Rohtak, on September 29. Prior to this, he held the position of Inspector General of the Rohtak Range. Born on May 19, 1973, and possessing an engineering degree, he is scheduled to retire on May 31, 2033.
