It's honest officers vs corrupt, says ASI's wife in FIR

The FIR pertaining to abetment to suicide lodged by Santosh, wife of deceased ASI Sandeep Lather, which was being kept under wraps by the local police authorities, has surfaced. Maintaining that it was a fight between honest and corrupt officers, the complainant has sought a CBI investigation into the entire episode.

"It is a fight between honest and corrupt officers. An inquiry into our property and that of the accused would reveal who is honest and who is corrupt. The entire episode should be probed by the CBI," she stated.

The deceased IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, her brother Aman Ratan, IG's gunman Sushil Kumar, IG office official Sunil and an unknown person have been named in the FIR.

As per police sources, the FIR has been registered under Sections 108 and 3(5) of the BNS. A special investigation team (SIT) headed by a DSP-level officer has been constituted to probe the matter.

In the FIR, a copy of which is with 'The Tribune', Santosh said a case of corruption was registered against Puran Kumar and his gunman at Urban Estate police station in Rohtak recently. "Before and after the registration of the said case, gunman Sushil Kumar, IG office official Sunil Kumar and others were threatening and putting pressure on my husband Sandeep by citing the high reach of IG's wife Amneet P Kumar, IAS, her brother Aman Ratan, MLA, and their relative in the Scheduled Castes Commission as my husband was involved in the investigation of the said case," she stated, adding that gunman Sushil Kumar was arrested in the case and other persons named in the FIR were also to be arrested.

"It was in this context that IG Puran Kumar committed suicide. IG's wife Amneet P Kumar and her brother Aman Ratan did not get the post-mortem examination of the deceased conducted to put pressure on the government to arrest honest police officers and employees of the Police Department. It was so because of a high-level Vigilance inquiry against the IG, his wife and some other IAS/IPS officers, in which the government was about to take strict action against them. To evade that action, the family members of the IG and some corrupt officers were putting pressure on the government. They were also pressurising the government to take action against honest officers. They also wanted to get some big post from the government," she alleged.

Santosh said during the week leading to her husband's suicide, he used to say that there was no value of honest officers and employees in the Police Department.

"It was due to the aforesaid circumstances that my husband was forced to end his life," she added.