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In his archetypal nationalist comments implicit a lawsuit involving an IPS officer’s death, Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini assured the deceased’s household members connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) that they volition get justice.
Y. Puran Kumar (52), a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, killed himself astatine his Sector-11 residence successful Chandigarh connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025). He has near down a “final note”.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) authorities successful Haryana is facing flak from the Opposition implicit the decease of the officer, with leaders demanding an autarkic probe into his death.
Addressing a gathering of BJP workers successful Panchkula, Mr. Saini said Kumar’s household members person told him that they privation justice.
“I person said that we volition probe the matter, and whosoever is recovered guilty, enactment volition surely beryllium taken against him, nary substance however large a idiosyncratic helium whitethorn be,” the Chief Minister said.
He further said helium has spoken to the deceased’s wife, Indian Administrative Service (IAS) serviceman Amneet P. Kumar.
“We are besides successful interaction with the Centre for the solution of this issue,” helium said.
Mr. Saini asked the Opposition parties not to indulge successful authorities implicit the issue. If the deceased’s household feels that injustice has been done with it, “we volition guarantee justice”, helium said.
“The household volition get justice,” the Chief Minister asserted.
Describing Puran Kumar’s decease arsenic unfortunate, Mr. Saini said helium had asked 2 officers to travel the deceased’s woman connected her mode backmost to India from Japan aft she was informed of her husband’s demise.
Amneet Kumar was portion of a delegation led by Mr. Saini connected a three-day circuit of Japan erstwhile her hubby ended himself successful Chandigarh.
She has alleged that her husband’s decease was the effect of “systematic persecution” by high-ranking officers.
After arriving from Japan, Mr. Saini met Amneet Kumar successful Chandigarh to convey his condolences.
The Chandigarh Police registered an FIR connected Thursday (October 9, 2025) connected charges of abetment to termination and nether the provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, based connected the deceased officer’s “final note”.
In the eight-page “final note”, Puran Kumar has named galore elder IPS officers, specifically referring to Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Narendra Bijarniya, for allegedly harassing and maligning him.
The Chandigarh Police constituted a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) connected Friday (October 10, 2025) for a "prompt, impartial and thorough" probe successful the substance successful a time-bound manner.
Chandigarh’s Inspector General (IG) Pushpendra Kumar volition pb the SIT.
In her ailment to the Chandigarh Police connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025), Amneet Kumar sought an FIR against Kapur and Bijarniya nether conception 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (abetment to suicide) and the applicable provisions of the SC-ST Act, demanding their contiguous arrest.
In his “final note”, Puran Kumar has named 8 elder IPS officers, including Kapur and Bijarniya.
A “will” and the “final note” were among the articles recovered astatine the country wherever the officer’s assemblage was recovered connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025), according to police.
