Several government officers and politicians attended the 'antim ardas' (final prayer) of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar at Gurdwara Nada Sahib in Panchkula on Sunday. The prayer was held in the Diwan Hall of the Gurdwara Nada Sahib in the Haryana city. The IPS officer allegedly shot himself dead at his Sector 11 private residence here on October 7.
Kumar's wife and IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, two daughters, and her brother Amit Rattan, the AAP MLA from Bathinda Rural in Punjab, attended the prayer.
Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, Haryana Congress president Rao Narender Singh, Punjab Assembly Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Punjab Finance Minister Harpal Singh Cheema, former Punjab minister Raj Kumar Verka, and former MP Ashok Tanwar were among the prominent politicians to be present. Haryana chief secretary Anurag Rastogi also attended the final prayer of the late IPS leader.
Briefly addressing the media, Rao Narender Singh delivered a condolence message from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, and party leader Rahul Gandhi was read at the officer’s final prayer.
Demanding justice for the late officer’s family, who accused senior officers of caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation, and atrocities, in an eight-page ‘final note’, purportedly written by him, the Finance Minister Cheema said, "Even in the 21st Century, if casteism continues, then it means our system is responsible for it and it needs to be rectified.”
Punjab Assembly speaker Sandhwan and former MP Tanwar too said justice must be done.
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