A day before Rahul Gandhi was scheduled to visit deceased IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's wife Amneet Kaur, the Haryana government has sent State DGP Shatrujeet Kapur on forced leave.
The late night development came days after the state government transferred Narendra Bijarniya, the then Rohtak's Superintendent of Police.
“Yes, the DGP has been sent on leave by the government,” said Rajiv Jaitly, media adviser to the Haryana chief minister. In an eight-page final note, purportedly left behind by Kumar, he accused eight senior IPS officers, including Kapur and 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.
Fifty-two-year-old Kumar, a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, allegedly shot himself dead on October 7.
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