Chandigarh: Chandigarh’s Director General of Police (DGP) Sagar Preet Hooda on Friday constituted a six-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe the alleged suicide by 2001-cadre Indian Police Service (IPS) officer of Haryana cadre Y. Puran Kumar on October 7.

A day earlier, the Chandigarh Police registered a first information report (FIR) with charges of abetment to suicide and provisions of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, based on a “final note” by the IPS officer, who named Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Singh Kapur and Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya among 11 serving and retired officials for allegedly harassing him.

Earlier in the day on Friday, Kumar’s wife Amneet P Kumar, who is also a senior bureaucrat in the

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