Chandigarh: Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujeet Kapur has been sent on leave amid the Indian Police Service (IPS) officer’s suicide row.

The Chandigarh Police have registered a first information report (FIR) taking cognisance of a “final note” left behind by Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, who allegedly died by suicide on October 7.

The FIR came hours after Puran Kumar’s wife and senior IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar sought Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s intervention to ensure the registration of an FIR and suspension and arrest of those named in the “final note” by her husband.

Puran Kumar’s wife is yet to give consent for the autopsy of her husband’s body, saying “powerful, high-ranking officials of Haryana are involved in the case”.

Eight days after the suicide, the

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