E ight days had passed since Y. Puran Kumar, an officer of the Indian Police Service (IPS) from Haryana had allegedly died by suicide . But in house 132 in Sector 24 in Chandigarh, his wife, Amneet P. Kumar, an Indian Administrative Service officer (IAS), said she had not yet accepted the loss of her husband. Amneet sat in stoic silence, greeting political leaders, colleagues, and even strangers who had come to show solidarity.

Amneet, who serves as Commissioner and Secretary in the Haryana government, had refused to allow the postmortem of her husband until two of the key accused in the case — Haryana Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak Superintendent of Police (SP) Narendra Bijarniya — were arrested. Their names featured among the dozens of names of officia

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