Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s death sparks row over FIR inclusion without govt nod

A day after 2001-batch Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar allegedly died by suicide, questions are being raised about the inclusion of his name in the FIR registered in Rohtak based on the complaint of a liquor contractor.

Sources close to his family said that his name could not have been included in the FIR without the permission of the state government.

The Rohtak Police had, on Monday, registered an FIR based on a complaint by a liquor contractor, alleging that Sushil, a person who was allegedly close to Kumar, then posted as IG, Rohtak, had sought a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh in the officer's name.

The contractor submitted CCTV footage and audio recordings as evidence.

While the police had arrested Sushil that same evening and produced him in court, Kumar's name also figured in the FIR.

Sources close to the family maintained that it was not a suicide but that Kumar "was driven" to it.

The family is awaiting the arrival of the deceased officer's wife, 2001-batch IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar, commissioner and Secretary of the Foreign Cooperation Department, who is on her way back from Japan, where she was accompanying the delegation led by Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini.

She is being accompanied back by two officers of the delegation. According to information, two other Haryana cadre IAS officers will be accompanying her to Chandigarh after she lands in Delhi shortly.

"Though we are booked on the flight to Chandigarh past 11 am, we might have to switch to the next flight as there is a slight delay in the arrival of the flight from Japan," an officer said.