The suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar once again highlights deep-rooted structural bias in India’s bureaucracy

The suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar in Haryana has once again brought to the forefront the persistent issue of caste-based discrimination and deep-rooted structural bias in Indian society. These inequities persist even within the civil services despite their elite status and constitutional protections. Kumar, an IPS officer of the 2001 batch in the Haryana cadre, died by suicide, leaving behind an eight-page note detailing a series of injustices he had endured. The Additional DG-rank officer explicitly named several IPS and IAS colleagues, holding them responsible for systematic humiliation, deliberate exclusion, pointed hostility, and administrative iso

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