 "Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sandeep Kumar, called senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar an 'absolutely corrupt cop' and claimed that he had taken his own life out of fear that his alleged misdeeds would soon be exposed. Image courtesy: News18")
The sudden death of another Haryana police officer has added a dramatic twist to the ongoing investigation into the suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.
Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sandeep Kumar, who was posted with the Cyber Cell in Rohtak, allegedly shot himself in a field on Tuesday using his service revolver. He left behind a three-page suicide note and a video message, both of which accused the late IPS officer of corruption.
In his note, Sandeep called Puran Kumar an “absolutely corrupt cop” and claimed that the IPS officer had taken his own life out of fear that his alleged misdeeds would soon be exposed.
Only a few days earlier, Y Puran Kumar, who was serving as Inspector General at the Police Training Centre in Sunaria-Rohtak, had died by suicide, accusing several senior officials of caste-based discrimination, humiliation, and targeted mental harassment. His wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, also made shocking allegations following his death.
Now, with ASI Sandeep Kumar’s suicide, the case has taken an unexpected and troubling turn. Here’s what we know so far.
What did Sandeep Kumar’s ‘final note’ say
In his last note and video message, ASI Sandeep Kumar made a series of explosive allegations against the late IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, saying he had “hijacked the system by using caste politics.”
“Y Puran Kumar was a corrupt officer. There is a lot of evidence against him,” the note read. Sandeep claimed he feared arrest in connection with the ongoing investigation but wanted to expose what he described as “a corrupt system” before ending his life.
“I am sacrificing my life to demand an impartial probe. This corrupt family should not be spared,” he wrote, saying he was giving up his life “for the truth.”
In his video message, the cyber cell officer went further, alleging that corruption and caste-based favouritism had deeply infected the department.
“The day this other officer was posted, he started doing caste politics and started getting rid of people. He appointed his own corrupt people. These corrupt people then started to look at files, searching for clerical errors, and then called officers, tortured them, and extorted money. Women police officers were threatened with transfer and molested,” he alleged.
According to reports, Sandeep Kumar had earlier caught Y Puran Kumar’s gunman accepting a Rs 2.5 lakh bribe from a liquor contractor. The contractor had approached Puran Kumar after being threatened by a gangster. Once the bribery allegations surfaced, the IPS officer allegedly gave the matter a caste angle before taking his own life.
“Roots of his corruption run very deep. He has committed suicide fearing the complaint against him,” Sandeep said. He added, “This is not a caste issue. Truth must come out. He was corrupt.”
Sandeep also expressed admiration for Rohtak police chief Narendra Bijarnia and Haryana Director General of Police Shatrujeet Kapur, one of the senior officers named in Puran Kumar’s suicide note.
“The DGP (Shatrujeet Kapur) is a very honest man. This IAS lobby wants the DGP removed so they can enjoy the cream. They are destroying the country,” Kumar alleged.
Following the uproar over Puran Singh’s suicide, Bijarnia was transferred, while DGP Kapur has been sent on leave.
The probe into the case is underway with the ASI’s suicide, and the allegation is further complicating the investigation.
Jat community seizes Sandeep’s body, refuses cremation
Tension ran high in parts of Haryana’s Rohtak and Jind districts on Tuesday after members of the Jat community seized the body of Sandeep Kumar and refused to perform his cremation.
The protesters, expressing anger and grief, demanded the immediate arrest of IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, the wife of the late officer Y Puran Kumar, whose name has repeatedly surfaced in connection with the ongoing controversy.
According to CNN-News18, the demonstrators carried Sandeep’s body to the Julana-Lakhan Majra stretch of the highway linking Punjab and placed it near the Julana district road.
As per The Indian Express, the ASI, a Jat native of Julana in Jind, had been living with his maternal uncle, Balwan Deswal, on Rohtak’s Ladhot Road.
A farm labourer nearby reportedly heard a gunshot and rushed to the house, built in the middle of a field. Inside, he found Sandeep lying in a pool of blood. The worker immediately alerted Balwan’s son, Ajit, who then called the police.
Sandeep Kumar is now survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son. His father, Dayanand, who had served as an Inspector in the Haryana Police, tragically died in a train accident about 20 years ago.
Y Puran Kumar’s allegations of harassment and caste bias
Just days before Sandeep Kumar’s death reignited the controversy, Y Puran Kumar had died by suicide under troubling circumstances.
A 2001-batch IPS officer, Kumar was serving as Inspector General at the Police Training Centre in Rohtak’s Sunaria when he allegedly shot himself in the head with his service revolver while seated in his office chair.
According to The Indian Express, a nine-page suicide note was recovered from his pocket. In it, Kumar named between 12 and 13 senior officials — including 7 to 8 IPS officers and two IAS officers — accusing them of “caste-based discrimination, public humiliation, targeted mental harassment and atrocities”.
According to his note, he repeatedly raised these issues with senior officials but received no response.
“Having waited for sufficient time and with no response, I am left with no option but to take this extreme step. I hope and pray that this animosity towards me ends with me now.”
After his death, Kumar’s wife, Dr Amneet P Kumar, filed a formal complaint naming DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and then-Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, accusing them of abetment to suicide.
“This is not a case of ordinary suicide but the outcome of relentless harassment by powerful officers who drove him to the brink,” she alleged in her complaint.
According to reports, she also refused to allow the post-mortem until action was taken against those named in her complaint.
“She has told the Chief Minister and Chief Secretary that she wants justice and will not agree to a post-mortem examination until a case is registered. She has questioned how those responsible for her husband’s death can go scot-free,” sources told The Indian Express.
The case has sparked intense political and social debate in Haryana.
Chief Minister Nayab Saini called Kumar’s death a “very tragic incident” and promised a fair probe, asserting, “No matter how influential the guilty person is, they will not be spared.”
With input from agencies