Haryana IPS officer's death: Rohtak SP replaced; development in line with family's demands
The family, since the recovery of the suicide note, had been demanding that the DGP and the SP, Rohtak, be sent on leave
Four days after the family sought "action" over IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's death by suicide at his Sector 11 residence, the Haryana Government today replaced Rohtak Superintendent of Police (SP) Narendra Bijarniya with Surinder Singh Bhoria.
The order issued today said that Bijarniya's posting orders would be issued separately.
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The family, after the recovery of the IPS officer's suicide note, had initially pressed for the immediate arrest of the DGP and SP, Rohtak. However, sources said that after the registration of the FIR, they had scaled down the demand for arrest and instead demanded that the two officers be "removed" from their positions and sent on long leave. Government officers, who met the family yesterday, had conveyed to them that the same was unlikely but had agreed to consider their demand after the post-mortem permission was granted.
With the family agreeing on the post-mortem this morning, the government has now transferred Bijarniya in partial acceptance of the family's demand.
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