Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar found dead at Chandigarh residence, suicide suspected
A senior IPS officer was found dead at his residence in Chandigarh with a gunshot wound. His wife, an IAS officer, was not at their residence when the incidence occurred.
Senior Haryana police officer, IPS Y Puran Kumar, has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Chandigarh Sector 11 residence on Tuesday.
Kumar, an IPS from the 2000 batch, was the Assistant Director General of Haryana Police.
A number of senior officials reached the spot, along with a forensics team.
Kanwardeep Kaur, Chandigarh SSP, told reporters, "We got information of a shooting at around 1:30 PM at Sector 11 Police Station. When we reached here, we found that a reported suicide had taken place. The body of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar was found at his residence. The CFSL team has reached the spot, and an investigation is underway. More details will be known after the post-mortem..."
Recent posting, family
The deceased IPS officer was serving at the Police Training Centre in Rohtak's Sunaria at the time of his death. He had taken charge at his new post on September 29. Before this, he was serving as the ADG of Rohtak.
At the time of the incident, the deceased officer's wife, Amneet P Kumar, who is a senior IAS officer, was not at their residence. She is currently in Japan as part of an official delegation being led by the state's chief minister, Nayab Singh Saini, a report in The Tribune has revealed. She is expected to return on Wednesday evening.
Amneet P Kumar is Commissioner & Secretary to the Government of Haryana's, Women and Child Development Department.
2023 letter to Haryana chief secretary
Kumar was unhappy with his postings, and had in 2023 written a letter to the Haryana chief secretary, complaining that he was given a post in the “non-cadre and non-existing” IGP homeguards.
On March 3, 2023, Kumar was posted as the IGP, homeguards by the Haryana state government, as per a report by Indian Express.
In the letter, Kumar had informed the Haryana chief secy that the post of IGP home guards had not been created by the state government in the first place. He also claimed that he was given the post in order to “insult, humiliate and harass him in public view for over seven months now,” the report claims.
“As per IPS Cadre Rules 1954 and IPS (Fixation of Cadre Strength) Amendment Regulation 2017, an IPS officer cannot hold an ex-cadre post in excess to the permissible number– which is 19 for Haryana,” Kumar had then said in his complaint.
2024 complaint on promotions
In a similar move, in 2024, when he was posted as the IGP (Telecommunications), Kumar had written to the Election Commission and the state chief secretary, complaining about the screening committees who decided on the promotion of two ADGP officials to DGP and four IGP officials to the rank of ADGP despite the model code of conduct being in effect in the state, as per a report.