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Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday wrote a condolence letter to Amneet P Kumar, the wife of late Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who died by suicide after alleging prolonged caste-based discrimination by senior police officers of the state.

 

In her letter, Sonia Gandhi described his death as “shocking and deeply painful.”

“The passing away of Mr Y Puran Kumar reveals that even the highest-level officers can be denied social justice on account of the discriminatory attitude and the preconceived notions of the powers that be. Crores of Indians stand with you in your fight for justice,” she wrote.

Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi have also expressed grief over Puran Kumar’s death and condemned the circumstances that pushed him to take the extreme step.

 

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