Haryana Top Cop Shatrujeet Kapur, Named In IPS Officer's Suicide Note, Sent On Leave

Last Updated:October 14, 2025, 08:13 IST

Haryana DGP sent on leave as probe intensifies into IPS Y Puran Kumar's death; suicide note accuses Kapur, Narendra Bijarniya and others of harassment and humiliation.

IPS officer Y Puran Kumar allegedly died by suicide in his home and his body was found by his daughter on October 7 in Chandigarh. (Image: Sourced)

As probe picks up pace in the senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s death case, which sent shock waves across the police fraternity, Haryana Director-General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur has been sent on leave.

The Haryana top cop was one of the eight people named in the suicide note allegedly written by the deceased IPS officer. In the eight-page note, Kumar accused the eight officers, including Kapur and former Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, of harassment, discrimination, and maligning his image.

Following the revelation, Bijarniya was transferred from Rohtak on Saturday.

So far, a total of 13 people, including former DGPs, former Chief Secretaries, SP Rohtak, and the Haryana DGP, have been named by the Haryana police in its probe into the death case.

Shatrujeet Kapur assumed charge as Haryana’s top cop on August 16, 2023. Since then, he has led the force through various law-and-order challenges while implementing key administrative reforms.

An alumnus of NIT Kurukshetra (1983–88 batch), Kapur has held several important positions in Haryana as well as at the national and international levels. He has also served as Director General of the state’s Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB), where he handled major corruption and high-profile cases. Earlier, during his tenure with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), he managed sensitive probes and contributed to several significant national investigations.

IPS Y Puran Kumar Death Case 

A 2001-batch IPS officer posted as Inspector General at the Police Training Centre in Rohtak’s Sunaria, Kumar allegedly shot himself at his residence in Chandigarh on October 7. His body was found with a gunshot wound in a room in the basement of his Sector 11 house.

A suicide note were later recovered. In the note, many “senior officers" were named with details of “mental harassment" and humiliation he faced over the last few years, as per sources.

The FIR accessed by CNN-News18 alleges that a false case was registered against the staff of the deceased IPS officer to implicate him on corruption charges, pushing him to suicide.

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