Tougher charge, punishable with life term, added to IPS suicide case

CHANDIGARH: Police connected Sunday pressed a much stringent conception of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act successful the lawsuit related to the alleged termination of IPS serviceman Y Puran Kumar, pursuing beardown objections from his woman Amneet Kumar.Amneet had accused constabulary of "diluting" the lawsuit by invoking Section 3(1)(r) of the SC/ST Act - which carries a minimum six-month jailhouse term, extendable to 5 years - alternatively of Section 3(2)(v), which provides for beingness imprisonment if the offence is motivated by caste.Puran Kumar, 52, a 2001-batch Haryana cadre officer, was recovered dormant astatine his Chandigarh location connected October 7. 16 elder IAS, IPS officers mentioned successful 'suicide note' Accepting the request of Amneet Kumar, woman of IPS serviceman Y Puran Kumar who allegedly died by suicide, SSP Chandigarh Kanwardeep Kaur said Sunday Section 3(2)(v) has present been added "in summation to" existing charges.

The FIR besides includes Section 108 of BNS, which deals with abetment of termination & carries a maximum condemnation of 10 years.Puran Kumar's termination enactment named astir 16 elder IAS and IPS officers, including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and past Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, alleging caste-based harassment and humiliation.Amneet - a 2001-batch IAS serviceman - told constabulary successful a written ailment Friday that "the names of the accused persons (1) Shatrujeet Kapur (2) Narendra Bijarnia person not been entered successful the FIR", contempt their alleged relation being the "trigger point" for her husband's death. She requested Chandigarh constabulary to database each accused intelligibly nether file 7 of the FIR document.