The Silence of Power: Two Deaths and the Rot Within Haryana’s Police State

 

By Ramphal Kataria

A Death Foretold: How the System Broke ADGP Y. Puran Kumar — and Then Looked Away

            Executive Summary

    The blog investigates the death by suicide of ADGP Y. Puran Kumar, a senior IPS officer in Haryana, as a case that exposes deep-seated institutional rot, caste discrimination, and administrative impunity within the state’s police and bureaucratic systems.

On 7 October 2025, ADGP Kumar allegedly shot himself at his Chandigarh residence, leaving behind a note accusing Haryana’s DGP, Chief Secretary, and Home Secretary of sustained harassment, humiliation, and caste-based discrimination. The letter cited repeated professional victimisation — denial of postings, isolation, and humiliation in official and social spaces — despite his exemplary service record.

Kumar’s death came days after a shocking incident in Rohtak, where his official vehicle was intercepted by two junior policemen, his security officer was abducted, and a coerced confession video was circulated online. Despite repeated complaints, senior police officials failed to act, reflecting systemic breakdown and deliberate neglect.

The delayed registration of FIR and dilution of charges — with caste atrocity provisions omitted — intensified public outrage. Prominent national and state leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Ramdas Athawale, Chirag Paswan, Bhagwant Mann, Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, and Charanjit Singh Channi, issued statements condemning the Haryana Government’s inaction and demanded an independent, court-monitored probe.

Under mounting political and public pressure, the state placed the DGP on “leave,” but no significant accountability followed. The incident soon spiraled further when ASI Sandeep Kumar, one of the officers involved in the Rohtak interception, also died by suicide — leaving a controversial video defending the same superiors accused by the ADGP.

The article situates both deaths within a broader critique of structural casteism, bureaucratic impunity, and moral collapse in governance, arguing that the system not only failed to protect an officer of the law but also erased his dignity in death.

Ultimately, it calls the episode not a personal tragedy but an institutional murder — one that indicts the political leadership, police hierarchy, and bureaucratic culture that silences dissent, punishes integrity, and normalizes caste-based subjugation even at the highest levels of state power.

I. The Final Message

On the afternoon of 7 October 2025, Additional Director General of Police Y. Puran Kumar locked himself in the sound-proof basement of his Chandigarh home and used his service revolver to end his life. Minutes earlier, he had sent a WhatsApp message to his wife — Amneet P. Kumar, a senior IAS officer accompanying the Haryana Chief Minister on an official visit to Japan — with a “final note.”
That note, now public, read less like a farewell and more like a charge-sheet: eight senior officers of the Haryana Police and top bureaucrats were accused of “blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted humiliation and administrative persecution.”

He named the DGP Shatrujeet Kapur, former DGP Manoj Yadav, SP Rohtak Bijender Bijrania, the Home Secretary Rajeev Arora, the Chief Secretary and many other senior police officers and bureaucrats, alleging that a caucus of civil-police power had suffocated him professionally since 2021.

II. A History of Humiliation

The torment, as reconstructed from official correspondences and testimonies, began when Kumar, then IG Ambala Range, visited a local temple in Shahzadpur police station limits — a routine cultural visit that drew an extraordinary reaction. The then DGP Manoj Yadav sought an explanation: “Why did you visit the temple?”

Kumar saw it as a coded insult — a Dalit officer being questioned for entering a space of ritual authority. He approached the Home Secretary seeking redress. His plea was filed away. A writ petition to the Punjab & Haryana High Court yielded no relief.

Transfers followed — first to Home Guards (a non-cadre post), then to postings without vehicles or staff. False complaints were floated. When he met the then Home Minister Anil Vij, a committee was indeed formed, but the “nexus” ensured it never met.

In his final note, Kumar wrote:

“They wanted me to learn my place. Every complaint, every transfer, every humiliation was meant to break me.”

III. The Incident That Triggered the End

A week before his death, while still serving as IG Rohtak Range, a shocking incident occurred.
On orders yet unaccounted for, ASI Sandeep Kumar and another constable stopped the ADGP’s car on the highway, forcibly picked up his gunman Sushil Kumar, took him to the police station, extracted a video-recorded confession in a corruption case — and leaked it.

FIR No. 305/2025 was registered against gunman Sushil Kumar who was picked from the car of ADGP.

Never before in Haryana’s policing history had an officer of ADGP rank been so publicly undermined by his subordinates.
Kumar called DGP Shatrujeet Kapur to report the insult. He was told to “but he hushed up.” He called SP Rohtak — his calls went unanswered.

The leak, the silence, and the institutional complicity broke him.

IV. The Aftermath and the Family’s Battle

When Amneet Kumar’s daughter discovered his body, the police moved swiftly — but not sensitively. The note and phone were seized; the body taken to PGI Sector 16 mortuary. For 48 hours, Amneet fought to have an FIR registered naming those her husband had accused.
Only on 9 October, after persistent protest, did Chandigarh Police register the case — FIR No. 156/2025 — under Section 306 IPC (abetment of suicide) and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, but column 7 (accused) was left blank and the stringent sub-sections 3(2)(v) not added, rather 3(1)(r) inserted. On the protest by Amneet Kumar, sub-sections 3(2)(v) was added.

Public outrage forced inclusion of the SC/ST sections later, yet no officer was named.

Leaders across the spectrum rallied behind the family:

Rahul Gandhi, after meeting Amneet in Chandigarh, said, “If an ADGP must die to be heard, imagine the fate of the ordinary Dalit citizen. This is not a suicide; it is a bureaucratic execution.”

Ramdas Athawale, Union Minister (RPI-A), met the CM demanding immediate suspension of the DGP and a Supreme Court-monitored probe: “A Dalit IPS officer’s voice was smothered. Justice delayed here will be justice denied to every Dalit officer.”

Chirag Paswan, LJP leader, warned that the silence of the BJP government “will stain the conscience of every constitutional office in Haryana.”

Bhagwant Mann, Punjab CM, called it “a frightening reminder that caste prejudice doesn’t spare even the uniform.”

Charanjit Singh Channi, former Punjab CM, said, “Puran Kumar fought not for promotion but for dignity. Haryana must answer.”

Chandrashekhar Azad Ravan, Bhim Army chief, led a candle march in Delhi declaring: “From Rohith Vemula to Y. Puran Kumar — India’s Dalits are dying of the system’s silence.”

Even M. A. Baby, CPI(M) General Secretary, wrote to Prime Minister Modi demanding a judicial enquiry by a sitting Supreme Court judge — reminding him that “institutional discrimination is not a perception but a lived governance reality.”

Under mounting pressure, the Haryana government finally sent DGP Shatrujeet Kapur on leave on 15 October, eight days after the suicide.

V. The Second Death

Barely 24 hours earlier, on 14 October 2025, the man who had intercepted the ADGP’s car — ASI Sandeep Kumar Lather — shot himself at his maternal uncle’s farm in Ladhaut village, Rohtak.
In his video message, he accused the late ADGP of corruption, caste favoritism, and misuse of position. He hailed SP Rohtak and DGP Kapur as “honest officers trying to clean the system.”

Sandeep confirmed on camera that he was the one who had picked up Sushil Kumar and recorded his confession. Chandigarh Police’s SIT had summoned him — he never appeared. Hours later, he was dead.

The police arrived, recovered his note and phone — but let villagers take the body away before formal seizure, a procedural breach that remains unexplained.

The next day, political theatre returned. CM Nayab Saini, Bhupinder Hooda, and Abhay Chautala attended the funeral.
The ASI’s family demanded:

1. FIR against Amneet Kumar, her MLA brother, and Sushil Kumar;

2. Government job for a family member;

3. Compensation and martyr’s status for Sandeep.

Within hours, an FIR was registered in Rohtak Urban Estate PS, fulfilling the first demand.

VI. Political Postures and Selective Sympathy

Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, visiting Sandeep’s family at PGIMS Rohtak, declared that “an attempt to give caste colour to the first incident was inappropriate” — a statement seen as the government’s bid to distance itself from the caste-bias charge and pivot to a corruption narrative.

Yet, as Ambedkar wrote in Annihilation of Caste, “Caste is a notion; it cannot be killed without killing the notion of graded inequality.”
The State’s denial of caste as a factor was itself a form of complicity.

VII. The Anatomy of a System

Two suicides — one of a top Dalit IPS officer, another of a subordinate who served under him. Both videos leaked from police custody. Both families courted by politicians.
But the contrast was stark: where Puran Kumar’s death was met with bureaucratic stonewalling, Sandeep’s was met with swift administrative sympathy.

This selective sensitivity reveals the rot:

1. Files moved only under political duress;

2. Justice calibrated by caste calculus;

3. Officers turned into pawns in a war of perception.

The Chief Minister’s hesitation to suspend his DGP despite overwhelming outrage symbolised the power of the bureaucratic caucus over the elected executive.
If a Chief Minister could not act against his police chief, what chance does an ordinary citizen have?

VIII. Caste, Power, and the Grammar of Governance

The Haryana bureaucracy has long mirrored the feudal hierarchy of its landholding castes. Puran Kumar’s tragedy exposes that this hierarchy extends beyond village borders into the state secretariat.
Ambedkar warned that “administration by caste is a negation of constitutional morality.”

When discrimination within the elite service corps remains unpunished, the message to every Dalit policeman is clear: loyalty will not protect you, caste will define you.

IX. A Cry for Constitutional Redemption

In a rare display of cross-party unity, leaders from Congress, Left, RPI, LJP, AAP, INLD, and JJP visited the bereaved family — each demanding the same thing: the justice. M. A. Baby, CPI(M) General Secretary demanded a Supreme Court-monitored judicial enquiry in his letter to PM.

Rahul Gandhi called it “a mirror to India’s institutional cruelty.”
Ramdas Athawale and Chirag Paswan jointly urged the Prime Minister to ensure “no officer named by Kumar remains in office.”
Bhagwant Mann likened it to “the institutional murder of a Dalit officer.”
Charanjit Channi reminded that “Dalit representation in police remains tokenism when protection is denied.”

But their visits could not wash away the government’s inertia.

X.Two Graves and an Unanswered Question

Nine days, two funerals, and three FIRs later, Haryana stood exposed — a state where justice moves only under televised outrage, where caste denial passes for governance, and where the death of a senior officer is debated for optics rather than truth.

If Ambedkar’s dream was that the law would be “a shield for the weak,” Haryana’s reality shows the shield turned inward — protecting power, not people.

Until caste ceases to be the silent file-note guiding our institutions, another Puran Kumar will die unheard, another Sandeep will be used, and another government will call it “unfortunate.”

 References

1. FIR No. 156/2025, Chandigarh Police (Section 306 IPC & SC/ST Act 1989).

2. FIR No. 305/2025, Rohtak Urban Estate PS (Abetment of Suicide — ASI Sandeep Kumar).

3. India Today — “Rahul Gandhi on Haryana cop Y Puran Kumar suicide case, says his death sends wrong message to Dalits.” India Today

4. Indian Express — “Haryana IPS officer suicide: No culprit must be spared, Chirag writes to Saini.” The Indian Express

5. The Print — “Poison in society: Chirag Paswan writes to CM Saini, urges impartial probe into Dalit IPS’ suicide.” ThePrint

6. The Week — “IPS 'suicide' case Athawale says Haryana CM has assured action, wants family's nod for autopsy.” The Week

7. NDTV — “No matter how capable...”, Rahul Gandhi message to Dalits. www.ndtv.com

8. Times of India / others — coverage of ASI Sandeep Lather’s death, Rohtak FIR No. 305 etc. (various). Indias News+1

9. Official statements by Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar at PGIMS Rohtak (16 Oct 2025).

10. Media reports: The Hindu, Indian Express, Hindustan Times, The Tribune, The Wire, Scroll, BBC Hindi.

 

The Death of an Officer, the Decay of a System: Caste, Power and the Betrayal of India’s Constitutional Promise

 

By Ramphal Kataria

From Y. Puran Kumar to Rohith Vemula — How Caste Still Kills Inside India’s Institutions

The alleged suicide of IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar is not an isolated tragedy. It reveals how caste, hierarchy and complicity continue to corrode India’s administrative and moral core.

I. The Death that Exposed a System

For every Y. Puran Kumar whose story reaches the public, countless others remain unheard — clerks, constables, teachers, soldiers — quietly bearing indignity until it breaks them.

Seven days after Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar allegedly shot himself, his post-mortem remains pending. His wife, senior IAS officer Amneet P. Kumar, refuses to allow it until two accused — Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and former SP Rohtak Narendra Bijarniya — are arrested. In his final note, Kumar named these officers, accusing them of years of harassment and humiliation.

He wasn’t an exception — he was evidence. Evidence of how the Indian administrative system remains caste-marked, politically compromised, and institutionally cruel.

II. The Origins of Caste: From Order to Oppression

Caste in India began as a division of labour, but soon hardened into a division of dignity. What the Rig Veda once described as varna — based on function — became, by the time of the Manusmriti, a divine hierarchy of birth.

The Brahmin became sacred, the Shudra became polluted. Labour was enslaved, and learning monopolized. Caste turned from social identity into a technology of control — determining who eats with whom, who learns, who rules, and who obeys.

As Dr. B.R. Ambedkar warned in Annihilation of Caste, “Caste is not merely a division of labour; it is a division of labourers.” The hierarchy that once served religion now quietly serves the Republic.

III. Constitutional Promises, Bureaucratic Realities

India’s Constitution outlawed untouchability and promised equality. Articles 15, 16, and 17 were meant to end centuries of inherited humiliation. But laws cannot dismantle what lives inside people.

In theory, reservations created opportunity. In practice, they created resentment. Bureaucracies — especially the IAS and IPS — remain dominated by upper-caste networks that mask prejudice under procedural language.

Officers from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and OBCs report the same patterns:

Isolation in postings, especially in rural or non-prominent districts.

Stalled promotions despite seniority.

Character assassination disguised as “disciplinary observation.”

Transfers used to punish dissent.

The Indian bureaucracy mirrors society’s caste biases — modern in form, feudal in function.

IV. The New Caste Arithmetic of Politics

Post-independence India replaced the varna system with vote-bank sociology. Caste has been reborn not as stigma, but as strategy.

Every political party has mastered this calculus — Dalit mobilization, Yadav consolidation, Maratha assertion, Brahmin revivalism. Elections have turned caste into an instrument of power, not protest.

In 1956, Ambedkar warned that “political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy.” But modern politics has flipped that warning: it thrives precisely by keeping social divisions alive.

The neo-caste politics of today doesn’t seek annihilation of caste, it seeks management of caste — as a resource to win elections, not a wound to heal.

V. The Silence of the Marginalized

Why are voices like Puran Kumar’s rare? Because institutions teach survival, not dissent. The subaltern is told to be grateful, not vocal.

A Dalit or backward-class officer rising to senior rank still faces coded humiliation — whispered comments on “quota,” undermined authority, and exclusion from informal power circles.

In Kumar’s case, humiliation was institutionalized: junior officers defying his instructions, fabricated corruption allegations, and a deliberate administrative cold-shoulder. The goal was not to discipline him — it was to break him.

His story is not unique. It’s part of a pattern where caste violence adapts to modernity. It no longer kills only in villages; it kills in offices, universities, and police headquarters.

VI. When Caste Creeps into Everyday Life

Caste exploitation remains woven into India’s social fabric:

Rohith Vemula’s death in Hyderabad (2016) exposed the caste cruelty of academia.

Manual scavengers, mostly Dalits, still die in sewers every year despite mechanization laws.

Police discrimination in postings and promotions remains rampant — Dalit officers are kept away from key positions.

Atrocities in Haryana, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh show how social hierarchies survive under political patronage.

And now, the institutional death of Y. Puran Kumar — showing that even a top-ranking officer is unsafe from humiliation if he refuses to conform.

Caste in India has evolved — from a physical segregation to a psychological imprisonment.

VII. Religion and Caste: Twin Engines of Hate

Today, caste and religion are the twin fuels of political control. The same ideology that once sanctified hierarchy now sanctifies hate.

The rhetoric of “Hindu unity” cleverly blurs caste lines before elections — only to restore them after victory. Muslims are painted as the common enemy, while internal caste rivalries ensure that solidarity among the oppressed never consolidates.

The politics of hate needs caste as its silent ally. The more divided the society, the easier it is to rule.

VIII. Bureaucracy as a Mirror of Morality

The Indian bureaucracy is designed to appear neutral but operate hierarchically. Promotions, transfers, and postings are often decided by who aligns, not who performs.

Caste invisibly dictates mentorship networks and power cliques. Officers like Puran Kumar — honest, assertive, unaligned — become threats to the comfort of complicity.

His suicide note, naming his own seniors, is a document of courage — and a mirror to the rot that hides behind polished uniforms and protocol.

IX. Towards a Moral Reformation

Legal reform without moral transformation is like applying perfume over rot. To cleanse the system, India must:

1. Enforce accountability for caste harassment in bureaucracy and police.

2. Reform administrative training to emphasize Ambedkarite values of equality and fraternity.

3. Depoliticize caste through stronger electoral codes and civic education.

4. Empower media and civil society to document institutional discrimination.

5. Protect whistle-blowers and dissenting officers from retaliatory transfers.

A democratic state cannot coexist with a feudal soul. Until the bureaucrat becomes a citizen first and a caste later, no reform will be real.

X. Epilogue: The Constitution We Betrayed

The tragedy of Y. Puran Kumar is not his death; it is our indifference.

Every April, the nation garlands Dr. Ambedkar’s portrait, while every day it betrays his dream. The Constitution’s promises of equality echo in courts and speeches, but rarely in offices and police stations.

We must ask ourselves:
How many more Rohiths, Payals, and Purans must die before we acknowledge that caste still kills — silently, systematically, institutionally?

Until that reckoning comes, justice will remain procedural, and humanity optional.

References

1. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, Annihilation of Caste (1936)

2. Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint (2014)

3. Christophe Jaffrelot, India’s Silent Revolution (2003)

4. Anand Teltumbde, Republic of Caste (2018)

5. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, The Burden of Democracy (2003)

6. The Tribune, “Why Did the System Let Puran Kumar Down” (October 2025)

7. The Hindu, “FIR Against Haryana DGP, SP in IPS Officer Suicide Case” (October 2025)

8. NCRB, Crime in India: Caste-based Atrocities Data (2023)

 

 

An Officer's Final Plea: The Unanswered Questions in the Tragic Death of ADGP Y. Puran Kumar

-Ramphal Kataria

Caste, Power, and Neglect: How Haryana Failed Its Senior IPS Officer

On October 7, 2025, the Indian Police Service (IPS) lost one of its own in a tragedy that has sent shockwaves through the corridors of power in Haryana and beyond. Y. Puran Kumar, a 2001-batch officer serving as Inspector General of Police (IGP), was found dead with a gunshot wound at his Chandigarh residence. What could have been treated as a straightforward, albeit tragic, case of suicide has unraveled into a gut-wrenching saga of alleged caste-based harassment, systemic failure, and a family's desperate battle for justice against the very system their loved one served.

Six days later, his body remains in a mortuary, a silent protest by a family that refuses to back down until justice is served. At the heart of this standoff is a "final note," a dying declaration that implicates some of the most powerful officers in the state, including the Director-General of Police (DGP) himself.

The "Final Note": A Damning Indictment

Recovered from the deceased officer's pocket, the "final note" is the cornerstone of this case. In it, ADGP Kumar reportedly named Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur, former Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, and several other senior officers, accusing them of relentless harassment, caste-based bias, and a campaign to malign his reputation.

For his family, this note is not just a letter; it is a dying declaration—a final, desperate testimony from a man pushed to the brink. It outlines the trigger points and names the individuals he held responsible for his extreme step.

In legal terms, this constitutes a dying declaration under Section 32 of the Indian Evidence Act, which courts accept as strong evidence when voluntarily made. Yet, the law has yet to act.

The note is a mirror to India’s bureaucratic caste bias: if an ADGP can be silenced and driven to death, the ordinary Dalit citizen is doubly vulnerable.

The Battle for an FIR: Justice Delayed and Diluted

The ordeal for the grieving family, particularly for his wife Amneet P. Kumar, a senior IAS officer, began almost immediately. The registration of a First Information Report (FIR) became the first hurdle in their quest for justice, a process that should be a citizen's right but often becomes a battle for the vulnerable.

When the FIR was finally registered, it was riddled with what the family called glaring "irregularities":

The Blank Accused Column: Despite the "final note" explicitly naming several high-ranking officers, the column for the accused in the initial FIR was left blank. This extraordinary omission signaled that the individuals named were being shielded.

Diluted Sections of Law: The initial FIR was registered under relatively non-significant sections of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, such as Section 3(1)(r), and Section 108 IPC (abetment of suicide). The family argued that these charges failed to capture the gravity of the caste-based atrocities that allegedly led to the suicide.

On October 10, Amneet P. Kumar formally wrote to the Chandigarh SSP, demanding corrections. She specifically insisted on the inclusion of Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act, which stipulates that if a person commits an offence under the Indian Penal Code punishable with a term of 10 years or more against a member of the SC/ST community, they shall be punished with life imprisonment and a fine.

Following immense pressure, the Chandigarh Police, on October 12, finally added this stringent section to the FIR. However, the initial reluctance speaks volumes about the institutional hesitation to act against its own powerful members.

Shielding the Accused and Flaring Caste Tensions

The government's response has been one of negotiation rather than enforcement of the law. Instead of arresting the accused named in a dying declaration—a standard procedure—the administration has been trying to persuade the family to allow the post-mortem.

Senior state cabinet ministers from the Scheduled Caste community were dispatched to meet the family.

These actions are widely seen as attempts to placate the family and quell public anger rather than delivering justice. The pressing question remains: Why are the accused being shielded?

Worse, a sinister narrative is being woven to divert the issue. So-called Khap Panchayats have been activated to defend former Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, painting him as an innocent officer. Voices from other communities are also reportedly being marshaled to oppose action against the accused officers.

This is a classic, time-tested strategy: convert an issue of individual justice and institutional accountability into a volatile caste conflict, allowing the government to sideline the aggrieved family and justify inaction against the powerful accused.

This tactic ignores a fundamental truth: this is not just a "Dalit issue". It is a human issue and a test of the rule of law. Kumar's caste is relevant because the SC/ST Act is designed to protect against identity-based atrocities. But the focus on caste in public discourse risks obscuring the core issue of institutional abuse.

The Constitutional Irony: When Even an IAS Officer Must Plead for Justice

That an IAS officer, married to an ADGP, has to petition and protest to have a proper FIR registered speaks volumes about the state of the rule of law. If this is the plight of those within the upper echelons of governance, one shudders to imagine the fate of ordinary Dalit citizens seeking redress for atrocities.

As Dr. B.R. Ambedkar wrote in Annihilation of Caste (1936), “Justice has always evaded the weak and the lowly when the structure of society is itself unjust.” The same structural bias seems to have stalked Puran Kumar to his death and continues to haunt his widow’s struggle for truth.

This case underscores that caste injustice is not confined to the poor or uneducated; it seeps into every institutional pore—from police mess halls to administrative chambers.

Silence of the Opposition and Apathy of the State

The Congress raised the issue briefly, calling it “a reflection of deepening caste discrimination under BJP rule.” Party president Mallikarjun Kharge, citing NCRB data, said crimes against Dalits had risen 46 percent between 2013 and 2023, and that the officer’s death was “a symptom of a feudal and Manuvadi mindset.”

Rahul Gandhi termed it “a symbol of the deepening social poison crushing humanity in the name of caste.” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra described it as “terrifying proof” of the State’s failure to protect Dalits.

But beyond social-media posts, no sustained agitation or parliamentary demand followed. Most regional political parties in Haryana maintained silence, wary of alienating bureaucratic networks or dominant-caste blocs.

Left and Ambedkarite groups, along with a 31-member citizens’ collective called “Justice for Y. Puran Kumar,” organised peaceful protests and a mahapanchayat demanding arrest of the DGP and SP. Yet, their voices remain marginalised in mainstream discourse.

Stark Questions That Remain Unanswered

The case raises profound questions for India’s administrative and judicial system:

1. Why were the accused not named in the initial FIR despite being explicitly listed in the final note?

2. Why was a stringent law like Section 3(2)(v) of the SC/ST Act initially diluted?

3. Why have there been no arrests even six days after the death?

4. Is the law applied differently for a common citizen versus a state DGP?

The handling of this case is more than an investigation into a death; it is a referendum on the soul of our institutions. The nation watches, waiting to see if the scales of justice will balance, or if they will once again tip in favor of the powerful.

What Justice Demands

Justice for Y. Puran Kumar is not a Dalit demand—it is a democratic imperative.

His “final note” is not a grievance; it is an indictment of a system that protects its own while silencing the vulnerable. The failure to arrest or suspend those named, the attempts to negotiate justice through job offers, and the cynical caste-baiting by local power brokers together amount to a second injustice—the erasure of truth through delay and diversion.

As the National Commission for Scheduled Castes seeks a report on caste bias in the case, and as civil-society groups rally for a judicial probe, one question hangs heavy:

If even an IPS officer’s dying words naming his oppressors cannot stir the conscience of the State, what hope remains for ordinary citizens?

References

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1. The Hindu, “Haryana DGP among officers named in IPS officer’s ‘final note’,” Oct 8–12 2025.

2. The Indian Express, “FIR amended after wife’s objection in IPS Y Puran Kumar death case,” Oct 12 2025.

3. The Print, “Family refuses post-mortem until DGP, SP arrested; Haryana ministers offer job to daughter,” Oct 11 2025.

4. PTI / ANI feeds, “Chandigarh Police adds Section 3(2)(v) of SC/ST Act,” Oct 12 2025.

5. The Tribune, “NCSC seeks report on caste bias in IPS officer’s death,” Oct 13 2025.

6. Ambedkar, B.R. (1936). Annihilation of Caste.

7. NCRB, Crime in India 2023, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India.