Haryana ASI Death: IPS Puram Kumar’s Wife, Her MLA Brother Booked For 'Abetment' Over Allegations In Suicide Note

Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar’s wife, senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, her brother and Punjab legislator Amit Rattan, along with two others, were booked by Rohtak district police on Wednesday for abetment of suicide. The case follows the death of Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sandeep Lathar, who was found with a gunshot wound and a purported final note accusing the late IPS officer of corruption, officials said.

FIR No. 305 was registered at Sadar Police Station in Rohtak on Wednesday, shortly after Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini met Sandeep’s family at their Ladhot village home and assured them of justice.

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“An FIR has been registered against senior IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, her brother and Amit Rattan as well as exemptee ASI Sushil Kumar and another policeman Sunil, posted at IG office in Rohtak, on charges of abetment to suicide and criminal conspiracy under relevant sections of BNS,” a senior police officer from Rohtak said, according to the HT reports.

Although the FIR has not been made public, a TOI report states that it names four individuals: Puran Kumar’s wife, IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, her brother and AAP MLA Amit Rattan, and Head Constable Sushil Kumar, Puran’s personal security officer, currently in custody in a corruption case. The case, filed on a complaint by Sandeep’s wife Santosh, cites sections 108 (abetment to suicide) and 61 (criminal conspiracy) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

Officials said that the FIR details were read to Sandeep’s family on Wednesday evening by Virendra Badkhalsa, Officer on Special Duty (OSD) to the Chief Minister. Two negotiators present confirmed that the family agreed to an autopsy only after hearing the FIR’s contents. Earlier, they had refused an autopsy and kept Sandeep’s body in a rented freezer at their home, demanding that all those named in his video and note be booked first.

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After the FIR was registered, Sandeep’s body was taken to PGIMS Rohtak late Wednesday night, with the postmortem scheduled for Thursday morning, followed by cremation. Coincidentally, Puran Kumar’s body was cremated in Chandigarh around the same time, after eight days of a similar deadlock, as his family had initially refused an autopsy as well.