Gurugram: Senior Haryana cadre IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, who died allegedly by suicide at his Chandigarh residence, has claimed in his eight-page ‘final note’ that a relentless campaign of caste-based discrimination, mental harassment, and administrative sabotage by senior officers drove him to the extreme step.

The note, along with a will recovered from the room where the 2001-batch officer was found dead Tuesday, names 15 current and former IAS and IPS officers, accusing them of “vindictive and revengeful” action, and caste-based discrimination and other forms of harassment.

Kumar (52), the IPS officer from Andhra Pradesh, was found dead in the basement of his Sector 11 residence in Chandigarh with gunshot injuries. The inspector general of police belonged to the Scheduled Caste cat

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