Chandigarh Police form SIT in Haryana IPS officer’s suicide case

The Chandigarh Police today constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) under Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pushpendra Kumar to investigate the suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar at his Sector 11 house here on Tuesday.

The SIT was formed on the directions of Chandigarh DGP Sagar Preet Hooda amid growing pressure from the officer’s family and representatives of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe communities, who have sought a fair and time-bound probe.

According to an official order, the SIT would conduct the probe into FIR no. 156/2025, registered under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act at the Sector 11 (West) police station. Headed by the IGP, the team includes SSP (UT) Kanwardeep Kaur, SP (City) KM Priyanka, DSP (Traffic) Charanjit Singh Virk, SDPO (South) Gurjit Kaur and Inspector Jaiveer Singh Rana (SHO, PS-11). The DGP has directed the team to ensure a prompt, impartial and comprehensive investigation.

The move came after a delegation of the SC/ST community representatives, led by D Suresh, Resident Commissioner at Haryana Bhavan, New Delhi, met the DGP at Police Headquarters in the afternoon, pressing for transparency and accountability in the investigation. Sources said besides Suresh, Puran Kumar’s brother, Vikram Kumar, also met DGP Hooda to convey the family’s demands.

Meanwhile, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of the deceased officer, has demanded correction and inclusion of the names of two accused officers — Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak SP Narender Bijarnia — in the FIR. She alleged that key names had been omitted and that the SC/ST Act sections were "diluted".

The family continues to refuse the post-mortem and last rites of the body until the two officers — the Haryana DGP and Rohtak SP — are sent on leave, as reportedly assured by Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini. State minister Krishan Lal Panwar visited the bereaved family to appeal for cremation, but it reiterated that it would not proceed until their demands were fulfilled.

National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) chairman Kishor Makwana visited the family and stayed inside the official residence for hours. Talking to the media, he said, "I came here to share the grief of the family as the NCSC Chairman and also to assure that the justice will be ensured."