Dalit Mahapanchayat on Sunday gave an ultimatum to the Haryana government to remove DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and take action in the senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's suicide case within next 48 hours. The Mahapanchayat has threatened to hold nation-wide protests as the family refused to give consent for an autopsy of Kumar's body till these demands are met.
Prof Jai Narain, who is chairman of the 31-member coordination committee of a number of Dalit organisations said that they have given the ultimatum to remove Kapur and take action against all the responsible officers within 48 hours, else the Dalit organisations would be holding protests across the country. Some other leaders even threaten to quit jobs and strike work.
The 2001-batch IPS officer, Kumar, 52, who was posted as IGP, police training centre, Rohtak on September 25 last, committed suicide at his residence in Chandigarh, on October 7, leaving the state police force in shock. He accused nine senior serving IPS officers, including the DGP Shatrujeet Kapur, SP Rohtak Narendra Bijarniya, a retired IPS officer and three retired IAS officers, of “caste-based discrimination, public humiliation, targeted mental harassment and atrocities'' for suicide.
Bijarniya was removed on Saturday and his posting orders have yet not been issued, though there has not been any information about a decision about the DGP Shatrujeet Kapur in the case. They – DGP Kapur and SP Bijariniya – have been named as the key accused in the complaint lodged by Kumar's wife Amneet P Kumar, an IAS officer in Haryana.
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