The Haryana government on Saturday transferred Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya, following the alleged suicide of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar at his residence in Chandigarh, officials said.
As per an official order, IPS officer Surinder Singh Bhoria has been appointed as the new Rohtak SP. The posting order for Bijarniya will be issued separately.
The action came after pressure from Kumar’s family, who demanded action against the officers named in a ‘final note’ left by the deceased officer. In it, he accused eight senior cops, including Bijarniya and Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur, of “blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation, and atrocities.”
Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer, allegedly shot himself dead at his Chandigarh residence on Tuesday.
In his ‘final note’, Kumar wrote, “Shatrujeet Kapur, DGP, Haryana, continues to harass me by instigating Narendra Bijarniya, SP, Rohtak, to malign my name and reputation by his actions and inactions by not acting on specific reports sent by me to the DGP against Bijarniya, which emboldened him to malign my reputation, make ultra vires orders, etc.”
In her complaint to Chandigarh Police on Wednesday, the IPS officer’s wife, IAS officer Amneet Kumar, demanded an FIR against Haryana DGP Kapur and Rohtak SP Bijarniya. She cited Section 108 of the BNS (abetment to suicide) and relevant provisions of the SC and ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, and called for their immediate arrest.
The family is yet to give consent for Kumar’s autopsy. Meanwhile, authorities shifted his body from the Government Multi-speciality Hospital in Sector 16 to the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) on Saturday.
Sources said the Haryana government was trying to persuade the family to agree to the post-mortem and cremation. Kumar was recently posted as IG of the Police Training Centre (PTC) in Sunaria, Rohtak.
Earlier, a liquor contractor in Rohtak filed a complaint against a head constable. He alleged that the constable demanded a bribe from him in Kumar’s name.
The head constable, Sushil Kumar, is currently in judicial custody. He was arrested by Rohtak police on bribery charges.
Police registered the case based on the complaint by the liquor contractor. The contractor claimed the constable asked for Rs 2.5 lakh in the name of the deceased officer when Kumar was posted there.
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