Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur sent on leave amid IPS officer’s suicide row

CHANDIGARH: In a late-night development, the Haryana authorities has sent Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur connected permission amid the contention surrounding the decease of elder IPS serviceman Y Puran Kumar, who had named Kapur successful his termination note.

The determination has travel conscionable a time earlier the person of absorption Haryana Rahul Gandhi was to sojourn the unfortunate officer's family.The determination comes pursuing a tense standoff, with the household of the deceased serviceman refusing to let the autopsy oregon cremation of the assemblage until Kapur was removed from his post. Rajiv Jaitly, media advisor to CM Haryana confirmed the improvement implicit phone. However, the authoritative bid was not released till the filing of this report.Y. Puran Kumar, a elder Haryana cadre 2001 cadre IPS officer, had committed termination connected October 7 leaving down a elaborate 8 leafage termination enactment successful which helium had sanction DGP Kapur triggering wide outrage and demands for action.The authorities authorities connected Saturday transferred different IPS officer, Narendra Bijrania, who was besides accused by the deceased bull for harassing him on with Kapur, from the station of SP Rohtak.

In his “final note”, Kumar accused respective elder officers, including Kapur and Bijarniya, of harassment and caste-based discrimination, which helium claimed contributed to his distress. A full of 16 officers including IAS and IPS were named by Kumar earlier taking the utmost step.The dormant assemblage of the deceased bull is lying successful mortuary, arsenic the deceased's woman P Amneet Kumar, who is besides a 2001 batch IAS officer, has been demanding enactment against Kapur.

The Haryana IAS officers relation had besides appealed to the Chandigarh medication and the Haryana authorities to instrumentality due enactment connected Amneet’s ailment filed with the Chandigarh Police connected Wednesday and her practice fixed to the Haryana CM.

In her complaint, Amneet alleged that her hubby had endured “years of systematic humiliation, harassment, and persecution” astatine the hands of elder officials, peculiarly DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur.On Sunday, a ‘Mahapanchayat’ (congregation) was besides organized successful Chandigarh by 31-Member Committee warring for justness to Puran Kumar’s household successful which a 48-hour ultimatum has been fixed to the Chandigarh Administration and the Haryana government. The deadline was to extremity connected Tuesday.The superior request of the committee was contiguous removal of Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur from his station wrong 48 hours.In a uncommon gesture, the Haryana politician Aseem Kumar Ghosh had besides visited the deceased officer's household connected Sunday to connection condolences.On October 9, the Chandigarh constabulary had registered an FIR against "all those named successful the last note" connected charges of abetment to termination and sections of SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act. The archetypal FIR had invoked conception 3(1)(r) of the Act, which provides for a jailhouse word of a minimum six months, extendable to 5 years, and a fine. Apart from this, the constabulary had besides charged the accused nether conception 108 of BNS for abetting suicide, which provides for a maximum condemnation of 10 years.

In the FIR’s column, which provides details of accused/suspect, the FIR had referred each those mentioned successful deceased officer’s termination enactment including astir 16 elder IPS/IAS officers with circumstantial allegations against Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and the past Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia. However, connected October 12, the Chandigarh constabulary amended the FIR to see Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, which provides a punishment of beingness imprisonment and a good if the offence is recovered to beryllium motivated by the victim’s caste.