Another Haryana cop suicide and bombshell note add twist to IPS officer's suicide
In another shocking turn in the death case of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, a Haryana cop posted with the Cyber Cell in Rohtak allegedly died by suicide on Tuesday, leaving behind a three-page note and a video message in which he accused the late IPS officer of corruption.
The body of the Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Sandeep Kumar, was found near a tubewell n the Rohtak–Panipat road. Police have recovered a suicide note and are examining the video message the officer recorded before taking his life.
In his note, the ASI made serious allegations against IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who himself died by suicide on October 7 in Chandigarh. “Y Puran Kumar was a corrupt officer. There is a lot of evidence against him,” the note stated. The ASI also wrote that he feared arrest in connection with the ongoing investigation and wanted to expose “the corrupt system” before dying.
“I am sacrificing my life to demand an impartial probe. This corrupt family should not be spared,” the note read. He further alleged that Kumar had “hijacked the system by using caste politics” to shield himself from accountability.
Sources said the ASI was part of the team investigating the case involving Sushil Kumar, the gunman of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, though he was not the investigating officer in the case.
This fresh suicide comes amid the ongoing probe into the death of 52-year-old IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who was found dead at his Sector 11 residence in Chandigarh. Kumar, then serving as Inspector General at the Police Training Centre in Rohtak’s Sunaria, allegedly shot himself while his wife, IAS officer Amneet Puran Kumar, was away on an official visit to Japan.
Kumar in a suicide note had named eight senior IPS officers, including DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and former Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, accusing them of harassment, caste-based discrimination, and professional isolation.
The fresh allegations made by the ASI are likely to complicate the ongoing investigation in Kumar's death case further.
Rohtak Superintendent of Police, Surendra Singh Bhoria, called Sandeep Kumar "a hardworking ASI of police department". "He was very honest and hardworking. His body has been found. A Forensic team has been called here and an investigation is being carried out," Bhoria said.
