IPS Y Puran Suicide | Punjab & Haryana High Court Seeks Status Of Probe From Chandigarh Police

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has sought a status report from the Chandigarh Police regarding the investigation into the alleged suicide of senior Haryana IPS officer Y Puran.

While listing the matter for November 12, Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry asked Chandigarh Police to apprise “what is the latest position in the stage of investigation. Where have you reached, whether you have named someday or not. It has been more than a month."

The plea, filed by Navneet Kumar, President of a Haryana NGO, calls for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the officer's death, citing concerns over the impartiality of the ongoing Chandigarh Police-led inquiry.

Kumar reportedly shot himself dead at his residence in Chandigarh on October 7 and left a suicide note, blaming various officers including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and then Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya. He also alleged caste-based discrimination and harassment.

The plea stated that the death of such a high-ranking public servant under deeply mysterious and disturbing circumstances has sent shockwaves across the nation, eroding public confidence in the internal accountability mechanisms of the civil services.

The recovery of multiple suicide notes, one allegedly written nearly a month in advance, explicitly naming eight IPS and two IAS officers as responsible for his death, points to a grave possibility of systemic abetment, caste-based persecution, and criminal conspiracy within the very institutional framework he served, it added.

It was further submitted in the plea that, Chandigarh Police, which is presently investigating the matter, suffers from territorial, institutional, and administrative limitations, particularly as the deceased was a Haryana cadre officer and the UT Administration is closely intertwined with both Haryana and Central establishments. These conflicts of interest render the ongoing investigation neither impartial nor effective, alleged the petitioner 

Title: NAVNEET KUMAR V/S UNION TERRITORY OF THE CHANDIGARH AND OTHERS