Chandigarh: A day after the suicide of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, his wife Amneet Kumar’s colleagues in the IAS association decided to conduct a solidarity meeting. Only those from minority and Scheduled Caste communities showed up.

“Officers from the caste of Mr Narender Bijrania (Rohat SP, now suspended) did not bother showing up. Not a single one. Not the young ones, even though they were in the secretariat,” a senior officer told ThePrint on the condition of anonymity.

The double suicides of ADGP Y Puran Kumar on 7 October and ASI Sandeep Lathar in Rohtak on 14 October have divided Haryana Police along battle lines. Caste, which lay beneath the khaki that officers wear every day, has now been brought to the fore. Surnames are determining solidarity. And in this fraught atmosphere,

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