CHANDIGARH: A day before Haryana’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) Y. Puran Kumar, an IPS officer from the 2001 batch, was found dead with a gunshot wound at his residence in Chandigarh, it is learnt on Wednesday that he was booked by the police on allegations of bribery.
The officer was reportedly perturbed over the inclusion of his name in a bribery case on the complaint of a liquor contractor without the permission of the state government. The Rohtak Police on Monday registered a first information report (FIR) based on a complaint by the liquor contractor, who alleged that Kumar’s aide Sushil Kumar had sought a bribe of Rs 2.5 lakh in the officer’s name.
On September 29, Kumar was transferred to the Police Training College in Sunaria in Rohtak. Previously, he was posted as the IG (Rohtak Range). The contractor, in a complaint, had submitted CCTV footage and audio recordings as evidence to substantiate his allegations.
While the police had arrested Sushil, Kumar's name figured in the FIR. However, the FIR has not been uploaded online, and officials linked to the case have been avoiding commenting on the matter.