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The successive suicides of two senior Haryana police officers have exposed deep-rooted issues within the state police. The first officer, Y Puran Kumar, a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, shot himself dead on October 7, days after he was transferred from his post as Inspector General (IG) of the Rohtak range to Sunaria Police Training College on September 29. He was reportedly transferred without prior notice.

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Puran's vehicle was stopped

This transfer allegedly disturbed him deeply, and he gave up the post on September 30 and went on leave for a week. Before the transfer, a tense exchange had reportedly taken place between him and a Rohtak police team when he was traveling to Chandigarh with his Personal Security Officer (PSO), Sushil Kumar, o

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