Haryana police officer Y Puran Kumar’s loss of life shouldn’t be concerning the respect of 1 household however all Dalits, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated on Tuesday. The Chief of Opposition in Lok Sabha urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini to behave instantly within the case.
Addressing reporters after assembly the household of the senior police officer who was discovered with a gunshot wound in his Chandigarh house final week, Gandhi stated there was systematic discrimination towards Kumar to demoralise him and harm his profession.
“A incorrect message is being despatched out to Dalits… that irrespective of how profitable you might be, if you’re Dalit, you could be oppressed and crushed,” the previous Congress president stated.
Y Puran Kumar ‘suicide’
The Chandigarh Police on 10 October shaped a six-member Particular Investigation Crew (SIT) to research the alleged ‘suicide’ of senior Haryana police officer Y Puran Kumar for “immediate, neutral and thorough investigation” in a time-bound method.
The event got here a day after the police filed an FIR primarily based on a ‘closing word’ left behind by Y Puran Kumar, who was discovered lifeless at his residence within the Union Territory on 7 October.
The FIR was filed late on Thursday night time, hours after the late officer’s spouse, Amneet Puran Kumar, sought Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini’s intervention in submitting an FIR and suspension of these named by her husband within the ‘closing word.’
Rahul Gandhi said that the Haryana chief minister has not fulfilled his dedication to a free and truthful inquiry. He stated there was loads of stress on Kumar’s household, significantly his two daughters. Rahul’s go to got here amid stepped-up assaults by the opposition towards the Haryana authorities over Kumar’s alleged suicide.
In an eight-page closing word purportedly left behind by him, the 52-year-old accused eight senior IPS officers, together with Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and now transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, of “blatant caste-based discrimination, focused psychological harassment, public humiliation and atrocities”.
