The Chandigarh Police on Friday formed a six-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to conduct a thorough and impartial probe in the wake of serious allegations surrounding the death of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.

The SIT, formed under the supervision of IGP UT Chandigarh Pushpendra Kumar, will investigate the registered case at Police Station Sector-11 (West) under Sections 108/3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and Section 3(1)(r) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

The SIT comprises IGP Pushpendra Kumar as head, along with SSP Kanwardeep Kaur, SPICity KM Priyanka, DSP Traffic Charanyit Singh Vik, SOPO South Qujt Kaur, and SHO PS-11 (West) Jarveer Singh Rana.

Officers may co-opt additional experts as required to expedite the collection of evidence, the examination of

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