News Today Live Updates, 14 October | As pressure mounts on IPS officer’s suicide, Haryana DGP sent on leave

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In a late-night decision on Monday, the Haryana government sent Director General of Police Shatrujeet Kapur on leave, days after transferring Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya, as pressure mounted over the suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar. Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police, was found dead from a gunshot wound at his Chandigarh home on October 7.

The doctor arrested in connection with the death of several children in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district allegedly got a 10% commission for prescribing a cough syrup that has been linked to the casualties, state police have told a sessions court. Dr Praveen Soni allegedly received the commission from Sresan Pharmaceutical Manufacturer, the Tamil Nadu-based firm that produced the adulterated Coldrif syrup.

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As the NDA on Sunday announced its seat-sharing formula for the coming Bihar Assembly elections, the eyecatcher with 29 seats was Chirag Paswan’s Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas). Admitting that Chirag had punched well above his weight and that the BJP accommodated him to keep the alliance “united and healthy”, sources said the party’s decision was informed by its “weak footing among the Dalits”.

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