Telangana Dy CM Condoles Family Of Deceased Haryana IPS Officer

Hyderabad: Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Monday met with the family of senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly died by suicide, to express condolences.

According to a statement from the Telangana deputy chief minister’s office, Vikramarka visited Kumar’s family in Chandigarh and consoled his wife Amneet P Kumar, a senior IAS officer serving in Haryana, along with other family members.

Fifty-two-year-old Kumar, a 2001-batch Indian Police Service officer, allegedly shot himself at his home in Sector 11 in Chandigarh on October 7.

Vikramarka asked about the circumstances that led to the incident and assured the family that the Telangana government would stand by them.

During his visit, he also spoke to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy over phone to Kumar’s wife and family.

The statement said Reddy expressed his deep condolences and promised full support to the bereaved family.

The deputy chief minister also met Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi and based on the contents of the suicide note, called for strict legal action against all those responsible, irrespective of their position, to ensure justice for Kumar’s family.

Vikramarka said, “Puran Kumar was an exceptionally talented officer, an engineering graduate from Osmania University (Hyderabad) and an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad. It is deeply disturbing that he was driven to take his own life due to caste-based discrimination and harassment by senior officers. His suicide note should be treated as a death declaration.” said Vikramarka.

He claimed that the government had not taken any action even after several days of the incident.

Vikramarka requested the Haryana government and Chandigarh Police to ensure justice for the family.

“It is shocking that the BJP government promoted Kapur, an officer known for his anti-Dalit stance, to the post of DGP,” he added.

In an eight-page ‘endnote’ allegedly left behind by Kumar, he named eight senior IPS officers, including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and former Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya, alleging that they had tried to harass and tarnish his image.

The memo also detailed caste-based discrimination and other forms of harassment by some officers.