IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar wrote his last letter, and sealed it with a bullet—his service pistol turned on himself, on October 7, in his Chandigarh home. That guaranteed his words ricocheted through Haryana’s police establishment, bureaucracy and polity, gaining an amplitude his voice was denied while he lived and spoke. In his eight-page ‘final note’, the Dalit officer detailed years of harassment, humiliation and derailing of his career by seniors.
Haryana | Double suicide muddle
