‘Caste bias killed my husband’: Haryana IPS officer's IAS wife seeks FIR against DGP, Rohtak SP for husband’s suicide

A day after senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar allegedly shot himself dead, his wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, lodged a formal complaint with Chandigarh Police on Wednesday night. In her complaint, she has sought an FIR against Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia, accusing them of abetment to suicide and caste-based harassment. What pushed IPS Puran Kumar to take the extreme step?

The complaint, filed under BNS Section 108 (abetment to suicide) and relevant provisions of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, stated, “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.”

“This is not just a personal tragedy but a reflection of the cruelty of power. Justice must not only be done but must be seen to be done,” Amneet wrote in her statement. The complaint was lodged at 8:55 pm at the Sector 11 police station in Chandigarh.

‘Faced years of humiliation and harassment’

In her statement, Amneet described her husband as a man of “unimpeachable integrity and extraordinary public spirit.” She alleged that he faced years of humiliation, harassment, and discrimination at the hands of his seniors, particularly DGP Kapur.

According to Amneet, her husband had confided in her that a conspiracy was being hatched under the direction of the DGP to falsely implicate him in a fabricated case. She referred to a “false FIR” (No. 0319/2025) registered on October 6 at Rohtak’s Urban Estate police station against one of his former staff members, which she claimed was intended to implicate Puran Kumar.

“This systematic persecution pushed him to his final anguish,” the IAS officer wrote. Before his death, her husband tried to contact both the DGP and SP Bijarnia but received no response. “The DGP brushed aside his plea, and the SP intentionally ignored his call. From the circumstances, it is clear that SP Rohtak was acting in concert with DGP Kapur,” she alleged.

"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,” The Times of India quoted SP Bijarnia as saying.

‘Caste bias and institutional failure’

Amneet alleged that her husband was subjected to caste-based discrimination, excluded from places of worship within police premises, and often humiliated for his Scheduled Caste background. Despite repeatedly seeking protection under the SC/ST Act, his appeals were ignored, she said.

"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,” she said.

“As an officer of the law, I now place my faith in the same institutions my husband and I served,” she added. The IAS officer urged police to arrest the DGP and the SP, fearing that 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.