Wife moves court for release of late Haryana IGP’s phone, laptop

Amneet P Kumar, IAS officer of Haryana and wife of late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, has filed an application before a local court seeking directions to the Chandigarh Police to return his mobile phone and laptop that were seized during the investigation in the suicide case. The court has issued notices to the respondents.

The family of the Haryana IGP had handed over the laptop to the UT police as part of the investigation on the direction of the court. The police had approached the court after the family delayed handing over the laptop to them. It was allegedly used by Kumar to type his ‘final note’ before he died by suicide.

The police claimed that the laptop was a crucial piece of evidence and had to be sent to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) for authentication of the note and fingerprint analysis and scrutiny of the officer’s email accounts. Cops had also seized two cellphones of the 2001-batch IPS officer, who was found dead with a gunshot wound at his Sector 11 house on October 7.

Kumar had named 16 senior IAS and IPS officers in his note, alleging harassment and holding them directly responsible for his decision to take the extreme step.