Haryana IPS officer suicide: Rahul Gandhi to meet family

Opposition leaders on Monday intensified their attack on the Haryana government over IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s alleged suicide, demanding swift action on his “final note” and the police complaint filed by his wife against the officers accused of harassing him.

With Congress leader Rahul Gandhi announcing that he would meet the officer’s family today, politics over the incident is set to heat up, even as there was no breakthrough in the impasse over Kumar’s family not consenting to his autopsy and cremation on Monday — seven days after the alleged suicide.

In an eight-page final note purportedly left behind by Kumar, he accused eight senior IPS officers, including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and now-transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, of “blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities.” The IPS officer’s wife — senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar — has demanded that Kapur and Bijarniya be named in the FIR for allegedly abetting her husband’s suicide. The officer’s family, which is also seeking their arrest, has refused to give consent for a post-mortem and cremation until its demands are addressed.

The state government and the Chandigarh authorities, meanwhile, have been making efforts to persuade Amneet P Kumar, serving in Haryana, to give her consent.