‘Only Rajesh Khullar helped me’: Deceased Haryana IPS officer’s suicide note reveals new details

CHANDIGARH: Senior Haryana IPS serviceman Y. Puran Kumar — who allegedly died by termination astatine his Chandigarh residence connected Tuesday had named 16 elder IAS and IPS officers successful his note, alleging harassment and holding them straight liable for his determination to instrumentality the utmost step.

Among those mentioned, Rajesh Khullar, the Chief Principal Secretary (CPS) to Haryana main curate Nayab Singh Saini, stood retired arsenic the lone serviceman who, according to Kumar’s note, extended him genuine enactment and assistance whenever helium reached out.

In his eight-page note, the deceased serviceman mentioned that helium met Khullar doubly and that Khullar adjacent helped him by dictating notes to re-examine the matters discussed.

According to the note, Puran Kumar had met Rajesh Khullar, IAS (Retd), CPS to CM, connected November 15, 2024, astatine his campy bureau to petition him to “kindly intervene and enactment an extremity to this continued caste-based discrimination, targeted intelligence harassment, nationalist humiliation and atrocities being committed against me.” “Khullar seemed convinced aft having seen the documentary grounds shown to him connected each the supra matters.

Subsequently, I again met Khullar connected December 27, 2024, successful his bureau erstwhile it came to my announcement from a section media nonfiction published connected December 26, 2024, that immoderate proceedings to see issuing a complaint expanse were underway. Khullar himself had shown maine that the substance was approved successful a regular mode and was contrary to what helium had though," the enactment stated."Immediately, helium dictated a enactment to the ACS (Home) to support the proceedings successful abeyance and re-examine the full substance successful airy of the supplementary comments submitted by me, and to enactment up the aforesaid by January 10, 2025,” the enactment stated further. He further mentioned that adjacent successful this contented — the details of which were confidential and confined to the officers of ACS (Home) and DGP Haryana — accusation got published successful the section media earlier the substance was adjacent finalised, which, helium said, “definitely damaged my estimation and humiliated maine successful nationalist view.” “The further comments were submitted to ACS (Home), Government of Haryana, vide memos no. SPL-1 dated December 24, 2024, and December 30, 2024. However, the substance is inactive pending contempt being blatantly devoid of immoderate merit. It was lone intended to harass maine and humiliate maine successful nationalist view,” the enactment mentioned. Rajesh Kumar Khullar, a retired IAS serviceman of the 1988 batch, is the wide in-charge of the Haryana CM’s bureau arsenic CPS.