Lok Sabha Leader of Oppostion Rahul Gandhi has blamed Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini for failing to deliver “justice” to the family of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.
A 2001-batch IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police, Kumar died by suicide, shooting himself dead at his Chandigarh home on October 7.
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met the family and said: “Haryana CM assured the family that justice would be done, but three days have passed with no action. Y Puran Kumar has two daughters who have lost their father and are under immense pressure…”
He said the delay in the Haryana government’s action sent a wrong message to crores of Dalits. “It is a tragedy. He was an IPS officer… It sends a wrong message to crores of Dalits that no matter how successful or intelligent you are, you can be suppressed. My message as the LoP to the PM and Haryana CM is ‘fulfil the commitment given to the daughters, allow the funeral, end this drama, and act against the officers exerting pressure on the family’.”
The Chandigarh Police last week set up a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe into an FIR registered after taking cognisance of a “final note” left behind by Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who purportedly died by suicide.
Haryana government has reportedly sent DGP Shatrujeet Kaur on leave after transferring Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya.
