ADGP’s wife Amneet P Kumar said she would ‘get justice at any cost’
CHANDIGARH: IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, wife of senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar who allegedly shot himself dead on Tuesday, lodged a complaint with Chandigarh police on Wednesday night seeking an FIR against Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia, and demanded their arrest. Amneet sought an FIR under BNS Section 108 (abetment to suicide) and provisions of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. “This is not a case of ordinary suicide but the direct result of systematic persecution of an honest officer from a Scheduled Caste community by powerful superiors,” the IAS officer claimed in a complaint lodged at 8.55 pm on Wednesday. “Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done – even for families like ours, shattered by the cruelty of the powerful,” her complaint said.
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‘Faced years of systematic humiliation, harassment’ With a heart weighed by unspeakable grief and shaken faith in justice”, the IAS officer said that her husband, an officer of “unimpeachable integrity and extraordinary public spirit”, faced “years of systematic humiliation, harassment, and persecution” by senior officers, and, she alleged, particularly by DGP Kapur.TOI contacted DGP Kapur for his response, but his office was yet to respond. SP Bijarnia told TOI, “Rohtak police neither named him (Kumar) as an accused nor summoned him for any investigation. The FIR registered by Rohtak police on extortion charges against a police officer is based on strong evidence and facts. Regarding the complaint against me, the matter is being probed by Chandigarh police, and I have full faith in their investigation as they are fully competent to conduct a fair probe.“Amneet claimed that her husband had informed her that “a conspiracy was being hatched under the direction of DGP Kapur to falsely frame him in a frivolous complaint”.She specifically mentions a “false FIR” (No. 0319/2025) registered on Oct 6 at Rohtak’s Urban Estate police station against one of her husband’s former staff members. She alleged it was an attempt to implicate Puran Kumar in that case. “This systematic persecution pushed him to his final anguish,” the complaint read.She also said before his death, her husband had attempted to contact DGP Kapur and SP Bijarnia but received no response. The DGP “brushed aside” his plea and the SP “intentionally did not respond” to his call, she said. “From the circumstances, it is evident SP Rohtak Narendra Bijarnia was acting in concert with DGP Kapur,”she alleged.Amneet alleged that her husband had repeatedly complained of caste-based discrimination, exclusion from police premises’ places of worship, and humiliation over his SC background. “He repeatedly invoked protection of the SC/ST Act, but was ignored,” Amneet wrote, adding that “administrative persecution can drive a person to suicide”.“The eight-page suicide note, a document of a broken spirit, reveals the names of several officers whose relentless actions drove him to the edge… It is impossible to express what my children and I have lost – a husband, a father, a man whose only crime was honesty in service. As an officer of the law, I now place my faith in the same institutions my husband and I served,” says the emotionally charged complaint addressed to SHO, Sector-11. The IAS officer urged police to arrest the DGP and the SP, fearing t their positions of power could enable them to tamper with evidence and influence witnesses. Her complaint mentions that a suicide note was recovered by police and CFSL experts on the day of the incident.
