Chandigarh: The cremation of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly died by suicide on October 7 - was held here on Wednesday after an eight-day impasse over the action against the police officers named by him in his ``suicide note''.

The cremation was attended by Kumar’s family members, a number of his colleagues including 1992-batch IPS officer O P Singh, who has been given the additional charge of the DGP, Haryana, replacing Shatrujeet Kapur, additional chief secretary, Home, Sumita Misra and scores of other bureaucrats, political leaders and sympathisers.

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Kumar's police uniform was briefly placed on the mortal remains before he was consigned to flames as his widow and IAS o

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