In the final hours before his death, Haryana Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Y Puran Kumar, who was found dead by suicide at his Sector 11 Chandigarh residence on October 7, made several desperate attempts to reach his wife, officials familiar with the investigation said.
According to police sources, Kumar, a 1996-batch IPS officer, made 15 calls to his wife, an IAS officer currently on an official visit to Japan with Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini. The calls reportedly went unanswered, as she was attending official engagements abroad.
Concerned after noticing the missed calls, Kumar’s wife allegedly contacted their daughter, asking her to check on her father. However, when the daughter returned home, she discovered her father lying motionless in the basement, bleeding from the head. He had shot himself with his service revolver, police said.
Investigators found an eight-page suicide note at the scene, in which Kumar accused senior officers of “mental harassment”. The officer had recently been distressed over the inclusion of his name in a bribery case, allegedly without the state government’s permission.
A will and the suicide note, dated October 6 and 7, were reportedly sent by Kumar to his wife and two fellow IPS officers before the incident, suggesting he had been contemplating the act.
Earlier that morning, he had instructed his cook not to allow anyone into the basement, saying he had “important work.” Police said the officer took his life inside the soundproof home theatre room of his residence.
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