Plea Filed In Punjab & Haryana High Court Seeking CBI Probe Into IPS Officer Y Puran Kumar's Alleged Suicide

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today adjourned the hearing on a petition seeking a CBI probe into the alleged suicide of a Senior Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar.

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.

Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Sanjiv Berry adjourned the PIL after the counsel for the petitioner sought time for making submissions.

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.

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