CHANDIGARH: Haryana ADGP Y Puran Kumar (52), known as an outspoken IPS officer who flagged irregularities, including alleged caste bias, in his own department, was found dead from a gunshot to the head at his Chandigarh residence Tuesday afternoon. The incident happened a day before he was to take up his new assignment as head of Police Training Centre, Sunaria. Police said Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer, shot himself with his gunman's service revolver in the soundproofed basement of his brother-in-law's house in Sector 11. According to a police release, a will and nine-page "final note" left by the ADG were recovered along with the weapon. Sources said the note named a few serving and retired IPS officers but didn't divulge its content.

His wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar - civil

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