Dalit IPS officer suicide, Dy CM Bhatti visits family

Telangana Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka on Monday met the family of senior Haryana IPS Dalit officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly died by suicide, to offer his condolences.

Vikramarka visited Kumar’s family in Chandigarh and consoled his wife, senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, who serves in Haryana, along with other family members, a release from the Telangana deputy chief minister’s office said.

Fifty-two-year-old Kumar, a 2001-batch Indian Police



Service officer, allegedly shot himself at his Sector 11 residence in Chandigarh on October 7.

Vikramarka enquired about the circumstances leading to the incident and assured the family that the Telangana government would stand by them.

During his visit, he also connected Kumar’s wife and family with Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy over the phone.

Reddy expressed his deep condolences and assured full support to the grieving family, the release added.