Gurugram: Shatrujeet Singh Kapur, Haryana Director General of Police (DGP), was booked by the Chandigarh Police Thursday evening after Y. Puran Kumar, a 2001-batch IPS officer, allegedly shot himself dead at his Chandigarh residence Tuesday and left behind a ‘final note’ holding top police officials, including the DGP, as responsible for his extreme step.

The note lists “job stress, mental harassment, and dissatisfaction” due to years of perceived bias and names 15 current and former IAS and IPS officers, accusing them of “vindictive and revengeful” action and other forms of harassment.

The deceased officer’s wife, Amneet P. Kumar, a 2001-batch IAS officer of the Haryana cadre, had earlier lodged a complaint urging the police to book and arrest Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya

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