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Police person added charges to the FIR registered successful the alleged termination lawsuit of Haryana IPS serviceman Y. Puran Kumar pursuing a plea by his woman to adhd the "relevant provisions" of the SC/ST Act.
Among different things, elder IAS serviceman Amneet P. Kumar, who is Puran Kumar's wife, wrote to constabulary earlier that the "diluted sections of the SC/ST Act successful the FIR should beryllium amended", and that Section 3 (2) (v) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was the "appropriate conception applicable" successful the case.
When contacted implicit the phone, Chandigarh IG Pushpendra Kumar, who is heading a six-member Special Investigation Team successful the case, connected Sunday (October 12, 2025) confirmed that Section 3 (2) (v) of the Act has been invoked successful the FIR.
Puran Kumar's household has yet to springiness consent for the autopsy until their demands are met.
The Haryana authorities had connected Saturday (October 12, 2025) shunted retired Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya, 1 of the cops against whom IPS serviceman Y. Puran Kumar's woman was seeking enactment for allegedly abetting his death.
In a little authoritative bid issued connected Saturday (October 11, 2025), IPS serviceman Surinder Singh Bhoria was appointed arsenic the caller Rohtak SP, and helium assumed the complaint of his caller posting. It said the posting bid of Bijarniya volition beryllium issued separately.
Ms. Amneet demanded successful the missive to SSP Kanwardeep Kaur to sanction the accused successful the FIR, and specifically mentioned Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya.
The Chandigarh Police's archetypal FIR, which was based connected a 'final note' by the deceased constabulary officer, had charges nether Section 108 rw 3(5) (abetment of suicide) and 3 (1) (r) POA (Prevention of Atrocities) SC/ST Act.
Ms. Amneet's ailment connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025) demanded Kapur and Bijarniya's contiguous arrest.
The SC/ST conception refers to a lawsuit erstwhile a idiosyncratic who is not a subordinate of a Scheduled Caste oregon a Scheduled Tribe intentionally insults oregon intimidates with the intent to humiliate a subordinate of a SC/ST successful immoderate spot wrong nationalist view.
The recently added Section 3 (2) (v) of the Act refers to immoderate offence nether the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), punishable with imprisonment for a word of 10 years oregon more, against an SC/ST idiosyncratic shall beryllium punishable with imprisonment for beingness and with fine.
On Saturday (October 11, 2025), Haryana ministers Krishan Lal Panwar, Krishan Kumar Bedi, Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi, and main caput to the CM Rajesh Khullar met Puran Kumar's family, seemingly an effort to transportation them to hold to a post-mortem introspection and cremation of the deceased officer.
In his archetypal remarks successful the lawsuit that involves allegations of caste-based favoritism against a elder IPS officer, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini connected Saturday (October 11, 2025) assured that the blameworthy volition look enactment irrespective of their presumption and asked the Opposition not to politicise the matter.
As the contention deepened, respective officials and Ministers from Haryana and politicians from assorted states met Kumar's wife, IAS serviceman Amneet P Kumar, connected Saturday (October 11, 2025).
A 31-member committee — Shaheed Y. Puran Singh Nyaya Sangharsh Morcha — formed to guarantee that the family's demands and concerns are addressed by authorities, has announced a "mahapanchayat" successful Chandigarh connected Sunday (October 12, 2025).
In a 'final note' purportedly near down by Y. Puran Kumar (52), a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, aft helium allegedly changeable himself dormant astatine his residence connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025), the deceased serviceman named 8 elder IPS officers, naming Haryana DGP Kapur and the past Rohtak SP Bijarniya for allegedly harassing and maligning him.
The deceased serviceman has besides fixed accounts of alleged harassment, including caste-based discrimination, by immoderate different officers.
Known for his interventions successful matters related to the rights of officers and seniority, Puran Kumar was precocious posted arsenic the Inspector General of the Police Training Centre (PTC) successful Rohtak's Sunaria.
Ms. Amneet alleged that her husband's decease was the effect of "systematic persecution" by high-ranking officers. A "will" and a "final note" were among the articles recovered astatine the country and seized connected Tuesday (October 7, 2025).
Chandigarh Police connected Friday (October 10, 2025) constituted a six-member SIT headed by IG Pushpendra Kumar for a "prompt, impartial and thorough investigation" into the officer's decease successful a time-bound manner.
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