Akal Takht Jathedar Giani Kuldip Singh Gargaj on Sunday expressed concern over the death of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who died by suicide allegedly due to caste-based discrimination that he faced at his workplace.

Kumar (52), a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, allegedly shot himself at his residence here on October 7.

In an eight-page 'final note' purportedly left behind by Kumar, he accused eight senior IPS officers, including Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and now-transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, of “blatant caste-based discrimination, targeted mental harassment, public humiliation and atrocities”.

In a statement issued on Sunday, Gargaj said the supreme temporal seat of Sikhs stands firmly against casteism and any form of discrimination.

The tragic inc

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