Gurugram: In a late-night development Monday, the Haryana government sent Director General of Police Shatrujeet Singh Kapur on leave, amid mounting pressure from Dalit organisations and opposition parties over the alleged suicide of senior IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar who accused the DGP of harassment.

However, it is still not clear whether this will break the deadlock over the postmortem of Kumar’s body, since his wife, IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar has been demanding the state police chief’s arrest.

ThePrint reached Amneet P. Kumar through phone calls, but she didn’t respond. Show Full Article

Y. Puran Kumar, a 2001-batch Haryana cadre IPS officer allegedly shot himself dead at his residence 7 October. In his ‘final note’, he accused Kapur of driving him to take the extreme step by usin

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