CHANDIGARH: Police on Sunday pressed a extra stringent part of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act within the case associated to the alleged suicide of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, following robust objections from his spouse Amneet Kumar.Amneet had accused police of “diluting” the case by invoking Part 3(1)(r) of the SC/ST Act – which carries a minimal six-month jail time period, extendable to 5 years – as an alternative of Part 3(2)(v), which gives for all times imprisonment if the offence is motivated by caste.Puran Kumar, 52, a 2001-batch Haryana cadre officer, was discovered useless at his Chandigarh house on October 7. 16 senior IAS, IPS officers talked about in ‘suicide notice' Accepting the demand of Amneet Kumar, spouse of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar who allegedly died by suicide, SSP Chandigarh Kanwardeep Kaur stated Sunday Part 3(2)(v) has now been added “along with” current expenses. The FIR additionally contains Part 108 of BNS, which offers with abetment of suicide & carries a most sentence of 10 years.Puran Kumar's suicide notice named round 16 senior IAS and IPS officers, together with Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur after which Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, alleging caste-based harassment and humiliation.Amneet – a 2001-batch IAS officer – advised police in a written criticism Friday that “the names of the accused individuals (1) Shatrujeet Kapur (2) Narendra Bijarnia haven't been entered within the FIR”, regardless of their alleged function being the “set off level” for her husband's dying. She requested Chandigarh police to listing all accused clearly underneath column 7 of the FIR doc.
