CHANDIGARH: Senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of senior Haryana IPS officer and Inspector General of Police Y Puran Kumar, who died by suicide on Tuesday, has lodged a complaint with the Chandigarh Police against Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Superintendent of Police of Rohtak Narendra Bijarnia.
She accused them of abetment to suicide and subjecting her husband to “caste-based slurs.” In his suicide note, Kumar had named 13 senior officers, including 10 IPS and three IAS officers, for “mental harassment”.
A 2001-batch IAS officer, Amneet in her complaint submitted to the Station House Officer of Sector 11 Police Station in Chandigarh on Tuesday evening, demanded that a case be registered under BNS Section 108 (abetment to suicide) and provisions of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act against DGP Kapur and SP Bijarnia, and that they be arrested.
The complaint submitted by her to the police reads, “That my husband, an officer of unimpeachable integrity and extraordinary public spirit, was found dead by a gunshot at our home on October 7. 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."
"That my husband’s pain was not hidden and is explanatory from the numerous complaints filed by him (which he has referred to in his suicide note), endured caste-based discrimination.”
She further stated, “My husband had reasonably learnt and intimated it to me that a conspiracy is being hatched on the directions of DGP Haryana Shatrujeet Kapur and he would be falsely implicated in a frivolous and mischievous complaint by fabricating false evidence."
"Subsequently, most cruelly, just before his death, on the directions of DGP Haryana, a ‘false’ FIR (No. 0319/2025) under section 308 (3) BNS, 2023, was registered at Police Station Urban Estate Rohtak dated October 6 against a staff member of my husband, Sushil. Under a well-planned conspiracy, my husband was being implicated in the said case by fabricating evidence against him, which pushed him to his final anguish,” stated the complaint.
She claimed that her husband had contacted Kapur regarding the case, but he hushed up the matter. She added that her husband tried to contact the Rohtak SP, but he intentionally did not answer his phone calls.
“The eight-page suicide note, a document of a broken spirit, lays here these truths and names numerous officers whose relentless actions pushed him to the edge. For the harassment meted out to my husband, he used to inform me about the same,” she wrote in her complaint.
“This is not a case of ordinary suicide but the direct result of systematic persecution of my husband, an officer from a Scheduled Caste community, by powerful and high-ranking officers who have used their positions to mentally torture him, ultimately driving him to such an extent that he was left with no other option but to take his life,” she stated.
She concluded, “Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done even for families like ours, shattered by the cruelty of the powerful. My children deserve answers. My husband’s decades of public service deserve dignity, not silence.”
Amneet, the Commissioner and Secretary of the Haryana government’s Department of Foreign Cooperation, was in Japan as part of a delegation led by Chief Minister Nayab Saini when her husband, Y Puran Kumar, died by suicide at their Sector 11 Chandigarh residence by shooting himself.
Sources said that in the eight-page suicide note titled “Continued blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities by concerned senior officers of Haryana since August 2020 which is now unbearable”, recovered by the police, Kumar allegedly named 13 senior officers, including 10 IPS and three IAS officers, for harassment.
He accused nine serving IPS officers, one retired IPS officer, and three retired IAS officers of “mental harassment”. He alleged prolonged caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, and humiliation within the Haryana Police since 2020. “The IPS and IAS officers mentioned are responsible for compelling, abetting and forcing me to take this extreme step,” it adds.
He alleged that the bias and humiliation began during the tenure of the former DGP of Haryana and continued till date. He also added that a former Additional Chief Secretary did not sanction his earned leave on time, due to which he could not visit his father for the last time before his death. He further alleged that he was hounded for visiting a temple. In the last four pages of his note, he elaborated on the alleged role of the senior IPS and IAS officers in “torturing” him.
The Rohtak Police on Monday registered a first information report (FIR) based on a complaint by a liquor contractor, who alleged that Kumar’s aide, Sushil Kumar, had sought a bribe of ₹2.5 lakh in the officer’s name and subsequently arrested Sushil.
On September 29, Kumar, a 2001-batch officer, was transferred to the Police Training College in Sunaria, Rohtak. Previously, he was posted as the Inspector General (Rohtak Range). An engineering graduate, he was born on May 19, 1973, and was due to retire on May 31, 2033.
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