Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is scheduled to pay a condolence visit on Tuesday evening to the residence of the late IGP officer Y Puran Kumar in Chandigarh. This visit marks yet another dramatic development in a case that has already roiled state politics and the police hierarchy.

Gandhi will arrive at 5.15 pm on October 14 and meet Amneet P Kumar, the widow of the deceased IPS officer. The family had refused to permit a postmortem examination or last rites until the arrest of Haryana DGP Shatrujeet Kapur, ousted Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, and other officers named in Kumar’s “final note”, creating a week-long standoff.

The visit comes after a condolence letter from Sonia Gandhi was delivered earlier to the family, which spoke of the “biased attitude of those

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