IPS officer 'shoots self' at home with gunman's revolver; leaves 9-page note

CHANDIGARH: Haryana ADGP Y Puran Kumar (52), known arsenic an outspoken IPS serviceman who flagged irregularities, including alleged caste bias, successful his ain department, was recovered dormant from a gunshot to the caput astatine his Chandigarh residence Tuesday afternoon.

The incidental happened a time earlier helium was to instrumentality up his caller duty arsenic caput of Police Training Centre, Sunaria. Police said Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer, changeable himself with his gunman's work revolver successful the soundproofed basement of his brother-in-law's location successful Sector 11. According to a constabulary release, a volition and nine-page "final note" near by the ADG were recovered on with the weapon. Sources said the enactment named a fewer serving and retired IPS officers but didn't divulge its content.

His wife, IAS serviceman Amneet P Kumar - civilian aviation caput and commissioner & secretary, women and kid improvement dept successful Haryana govt - was successful Japan arsenic portion of a delegation. Kumar took PSO's pistol, saying helium had 'some enactment to do' A autochthonal of Andhra, Haryana ADGP Y Puran Kumar belonged to the Scheduled Caste community. He held a BE-computer subject grade and was an IIM-Ahmedabad alumnus. He repeatedly challenged his ain department, not hesitating to determination court, and had erstwhile complained against erstwhile Haryana DGP Manoj Yadava, accusing him of discrimination.

He was past posted arsenic IG-Rohtak Range earlier being transferred to the grooming centre connected Sept 29.

He went connected permission and was owed to articulation his caller posting connected Wednesday.Investigators are struggling to found a timeline since the basement, which Kumar had converted into his office, was soundproof. So far, they person learnt that Kumar had asked his gunman to springiness him his work pistol astir 1 p.m. Tuesday, saying helium had "some enactment to do", and proceeded to the basement.

No 1 heard the gunshot - not his daughter, the securitymen, location staff, passersby, nor immoderate labourers moving astatine a crippled nearby.About an hr later, erstwhile Kumar's girl went to the basement, she recovered him lying connected the sofa, bleeding from the head. She alerted the information unit and informed the cops. IG Pushpendra Singh, SSP Kaur and SP-city Priyanka rushed to the spot with the archetypal responders. The location was sealed off, and forensic experts collected evidence. The on-site probe was videographed, constabulary said.Kumar and his woman person 2 daughters; the elder 1 studies abroad.