Haryana IPS officer's death: Shatrujeet Kapur relieved from DGP charge

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Two months aft being sent connected permission amid a contention implicit IPS serviceman Y. Puran Kumar's death, the Haryana authorities has relieved IPS Shatrujeet Kapur from the complaint of Director General of Police.

O.P. Singh, who was fixed the further complaint arsenic authorities constabulary main during Mr. Kapur's absence, has been appointed arsenic officiating DGP till further orders.

The Haryana authorities is apt to nonstop a sheet of elder IPS officers' names to the Union Public Service Commission to name a caller authorities constabulary chief, arsenic Mr. Singh, a 1992-batch IPS officer, is owed to discontinue connected December 31.

Mr. Kapur, a 1990-batch IPS officer, volition proceed to clasp the complaint of president of Haryana Police Housing Corporation, Panchkula, according to an authoritative order. An engineering graduate, Mr. Kapur was appointed the authorities constabulary main successful August 2023.

On October 14, Mr. Kapur went connected permission amid mounting disapproval from absorption parties implicit IPS serviceman Y. Puran Kumar's death. Mr. Singh was past fixed the further complaint of DGP.

Mr. Kumar (52), a 2001-batch IPS officer, was recovered dormant connected October 7.

In an eight-page enactment purportedly near down by him, Kumar accused aggregate elder officers, including Shatrujeet Kapur, of "blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted intelligence harassment, nationalist humiliation and atrocities".

Amid unit from the governmental parties, the Haryana authorities archetypal shunted retired Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya and aboriginal sent Shatrujeet Kapur connected leave.

Kumar's wife, IAS serviceman Amneet P. Kumar, gave consent for post-mortem a week aft the decease aft receiving assurance from Chandigarh Police that a just probe would beryllium conducted and a committedness from the Haryana authorities that enactment would beryllium taken against immoderate "erring" officials.

Published - December 15, 2025 09:46 americium IST

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