Wife of Haryana IGP who died by suicide names DGP in plaint

Haryana-cadre IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of deceased IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, has submitted a complaint to the Chandigarh Police seeking the registration of an FIR against DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities Act) for allegedly driving her husband to suicide.

Puran Kumar, who was recently appointed as the IGP, Police Training Centre, Sunaria, Rohtak, allegedly shot himself at his Sector 11 house here. Amneet claimed that her husband, in his suicide note, had demanded an FIR against the DGP and the SP and their arrest.

“My husband, an officer of unimpeachable integrity and extraordinary public spirit, was found dead by a gunshot at our home. While official narratives suggest suicide, my soul cries for justice as a wife witnessing years of systematic humiliation, harassment and persecution inflicted upon my husband by senior officials, including Shatrujeet Kapur, DGP, Haryana,” Amneet stated in the complaint.

She alleged that her husband had endured caste-based discrimination and had informed her that a conspiracy was being hatched on the directions of the DGP to implicate him in a frivolous complaint.

“A false FIR was registered at the Urban Estate police station, Rohtak, on October 6, 2025, against a staff member of my husband, Sushil, under a well-planned conspiracy. My husband was being implicated in the said case, which pushed him to suicide,” she alleged.

Amneet claimed that her husband had contacted Kapur regarding the case, but he hushed up the matter. She said he tried to contact the Rohtak SP, too, but the latter did not answer his call.

She said her husband had repeatedly invoked the SC and ST Act after being “subjected to caste-based slurs, exclusion from places of worship on police premises, mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities by senior officers”.

Alleging the suicide was a direct result of systematic persecution of her husband, she demanded Kapur and Bijarniya’s arrest.

Kapur didn’t respond to calls on his official phone number when contacted by The Tribune for his comments. Bijarniya cut the call when this reporter called him.