Gurugram: The Chandigarh Police have amended its FIR in the IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar suicide case, replacing the SC/ST Act provision that attracted just six-month jail with one that mandates a life term. This came on a day the Haryana government transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijraniya, who Kumar accused of harassing him.

A source in the Chandigarh Police confirmed that in FIR No. 156, registered at the Sector 11 Police Station in Chandigarh 9 October, the initially invoked section 3(1)(r) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been replaced with Section 3(2)(V).

Earlier on Saturday, the Haryana government shifted Bijarniya and appointed Surender Singh Bhoria, Commandant, 5th Battalion of the Haryana Armed Police, Madhuban, in his place. Show

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