CHANDIGARH: In a late-night development, the Haryana government has sent Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur on leave amid the controversy surrounding the death of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who had named Kapur in his suicide note. The decision has come just a day before the leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi was to visit the victim officer's family. The decision comes following a tense standoff, with the family of the deceased officer refusing to allow the autopsy or cremation of the body until Kapur was removed from his post. Rajiv Jaitly, media adviser to CM Haryana confirmed the development over phone. However, the official order was not released till the filing of this report. Y. Puran Kumar, a senior Haryana cadre 2001 cadre IPS officer, had comm

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