Rahul Gandhi meets family of Haryana IPS officer Puran Kumar

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met the family of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly committed suicide.

After landing at the airport here, Gandhi reached Kumar’s residence at 11:08 am to offer his condolences.

Gandhi’s visit came amid stepped up attack by the opposition on the Haryana government over Kumar’s alleged suicide.

A 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Kumar allegedly shot himself dead on October



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In an eight-page final note purportedly left behind by Kumar, the 52-year-old accused eight senior IPS officers, including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and now-transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, of “blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities.”

The IPS officer’s wife — senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar — has demanded that Kapur and Bijarniya be named in the FIR for allegedly abetting her husband’s suicide.