Gurugram: Senior Haryana cadre IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, who died allegedly by suicide at his Chandigarh residence, has claimed in his eight-page ‘final note’ that a relentless campaign of caste-based discrimination, mental harassment, and administrative sabotage by senior officers drove him to the extreme step.
The note, along with a will recovered from the room where the 2001-batch officer was found dead Tuesday, names 15 current and former IAS and IPS officers, accusing them of “vindictive and revengeful” action, and caste-based discrimination and other forms of harassment.
Kumar (52), the IPS officer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in the basement of his Sector 11 residence in Chandigarh with gunshot injuries. The inspector general of police belonged to the Scheduled Caste category.
His wife, IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar of the 2001 batch of the Haryana cadre, filed a complaint with the Chandigarh Police seeking an FIR against Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya under Section 108 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (abetment to suicide) and the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
In the complaint she filed after returning from an official trip to Japan on 8 October, Amneet has described the note as “a document of a broken spirit” that lays bare “systematic humiliation” ignored despite repeated pleas.
The document, titled by Kumar as “Final Note”, is typed in English and signed in green ink.
While Kumar mentions the actions of DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia as trigger of his decision to end his life, the others who figure in the note are Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi and IPS officers Amitabh Dhillon, Sandeep Khirwar, Sanjay Kumar, Kala Ramachandran, M. Ravi Kiran, Sibas Kaviraj, Pankaj Nain, and Kulwinder Singh.
Among the four retired officers mentioned by Puran Kumar in his final note, two are IAS officers and two are IPS officers: former Chief Secretary TVSN Prasad, former additional chief secretary (home) Rajeev Arora, and former DGPs Manoj Yadava and P.K. Agrawal.
In his note, Kumar claimed his persecution started in August 2020 under then-DGP Manoj Yadava (now-retired), which persisted under the successive incumbents to the post.
In his note, Kumar has accused his senior officers of weaponising bureaucracy against him, and framed it as targeted bias against Dalit officers.
“Continued discrimination by not giving me my arrears, posting on non-existent posts, not finalising representations, including performance appraisal reviews-related representations, humiliating, harassing and insulting me in public view, deliberate and continued attempts to initiate false, vexatious and malicious proceedings against me… that too based on anonymous/pseudonymous complaints…. compelled me to take this extreme step as I cannot bear this any longer,” the IPS officer wrote in the ‘final note’.
He also alleged he was not allowed leaves to visit his father one last time.
“Sh Rajeev Arora, IAS (retd) the then ACS Home did not even sanction me earned leave on time due to which I could not even visit my father for the last time before his death, this causes me continued immense pain and mental harassment and is an irreparable loss till date. This was also intimated to all concerned in writing, including the then Chief Secretary of Haryana, but no action was taken.”
On alleged caste based discrimination against him, Kumar has alleged he was “hounded” for visiting a temple in an Ambala police station in 2020.
He claimed complaints to the then chief secretary and home minister were not only “ignored” but “used vindictively”, including by tampering documents, seizing official vehicles after RTI filings, and giving adverse Annual Confidential Reports (ACRs).
In the climax of the note, Kumar has mentioned an filed on 6 October at Rohtak’s Urban Estate Police Station under Section 308(3) BNS against his gunman Sushil Kumar for alleged extortion from a liquor trader.
This was done as a “well-planned conspiracy” at DGP Kapur’s behest to “malign” him and derail his anti-corruption probes, Kumar has written
He claimed he contacted Kapur but he “hushed up” the matter. He also mentions calling Bijarniya, but he was allegedly conspiring to fabricate evidence.
“Even during the interim period, I thought over carefully and was convinced that I cannot bear this continued and concerted conspiracy of concerned to continue with caste-based discrimination… hence this final decision to end it all,” he wrote.
In her complaint, Amneet has said, “This is the extent of targeted vindictive and revengeful mental harassment.” She demanded all accused should be arrested immediately or they can tamper with evidence.
The ninth page of Kumar’s ‘final note’ is a will dated 6 October, bequeaths all assets—including HDFC Bank accounts, Demat shares, a 25 percent stake in their Sector 11 home, a Mohali plot, and Gurugram office—to Amneet, naming her guardian for their daughter studying in the US.
He sent the will to Amneet on the phone, triggering frantic calls from her but they went unanswered. She then called her daughter.
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What else did note say?
Kumar also said in his note, “I met Rajesh Khullar, the Chief Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister, at his camp office. I explained in detail the caste-based attacks and harassment I was facing. Khullar listened to me carefully, agreed with my concerns, and also gave me written documents.”
He went on to add that on 27 December 2024, he met Khullar again after learning from a newspaper report the previous day that preparations were being made to issue a chargesheet against him.
“Khullar assured me and directed the ACS (Home) to investigate the entire matter again. He wrote that this entire action was carried out under the directions of the Haryana DGP and was leaked to the media, which damaged my reputation,” the officer wrote in the note.
He alleged that Manoj Yadava sent him a notice for visiting a temple inside a police station in Ambala, and that he received no support from ACS Rajiv Arora.
“Just before my father’s death, he (Arora) even refused to approve my earned leave, which caused me deep pain and mental suffering — an irreparable loss. I had also informed the then Chief Secretary in writing, but no action was taken,” he has alleged in the note.
The note adds that the same attitude continued with TVSN Prasad (then ACS Home) and P.K. Agrawal (then DGP), both batchmates of Yadava.
Kumar has also mentioned a meeting chaired by the then Home Minister Anil Vij in November 2023, which was attended by ACS Home TVSN Prasad and DGP Shatrujeet Kapur.
However, no action was taken on his complaints, and the alleged harassment continued, he claimed, adding even Dr. M. Ravi Kiran (IPS, 1996 batch) publicly mocked him.
He also wrote that Sandeep Khirwar (IPS, 1995 batch), who was then Gurugram Police Commissioner, and Sibas Kaviraj (IPS, 1999 batch), then Joint Commissioner of Police, tried to falsely implicate him in fabricated cases after his transfer from Gurugram.
He accused K. Ramachandran (IPS, 1994 batch) of applying separate rules only to him during the allotment of official residence in Panchkula, and of filing a false affidavit in the DGP office claiming there was a guest house next to the DGP residence in Faridabad.
He stated that all this was done to publicly humiliate him and destroy his professional image.
He alleged Manoj Yadava (then DGP) and Rajeev Arora (then ACS Home) damaged his reputation publicly.
Yadava, P.K. Agrawal, and TVSN Prasad, all 1988 batchmates, were part of the same group — Yadava being the main conspirator and the others active participants, he has written.
(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)
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