Senior Haryana police officer, IPS Y Puran Kumar, has reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Chandigarh Sector 11 residence on Tuesday.

Kumar, an IPS from the 2000 batch, was the Assistant Director General of Haryana Police.

Recent posting, family

The deceased IPS officer was serving at the Police Training Centre in Rohtak's Sunaria at the time of his death. He had taken charge at his new post on September 29. Before this, he was serving as the ADG of Rohtak.

At the time of the incident, the deceased officer's wife, Amneet P Kumar, who is a senior IAS officer, was not at their residence. She is currently in Japan as part of an official delegation being led by the state's chief minister, Nayab Singh Saini, a report in The Tribune has revealed. She is expected to retu

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