CHANDIGARH: The Haryana authorities has changed Rohtak Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijraniya with Surinder Singh Bhoria, officers stated on Saturday.The reshuffle comes amid rising strain following the dying by suicide of senior IPS officer Y Puran Kumar earlier this week.
On Wednesday sources advised TOI, that the state authorities can also be contemplating sending Director Normal of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Singh Kapur on lengthy go away, and will even appoint an “officiating DGP” to defuse the mounting stress throughout the police ranks.Two days after Kumar’s dying, Chandigarh Police on Thursday evening registered an FIR (No. 156) at Sector 11 police station, primarily based on his eight-page suicide notice. The notice named eight senior IPS officers, together with DGP Kapur and SP Bijraniya, alleging harassment and makes an attempt to malign him.The case has been registered beneath fees of abetment to suicide and related provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.Kumar’s spouse, 2001-batch IAS officer Amneet P Kumar, has demanded the suspension and arrest of all officers talked about within the notice. She personally handed over her grievance to chief minister Nayab Singh Saini when he visited their Sector 24 residence in Chandigarh round 12:30 pm on Thursday. The chief minister stayed for almost 45 minutes, providing condolences and becoming a member of the household in prayer.In her letter, Amneet alleged that the officers named in her husband’s suicide notice have been accountable for “harassment, humiliation, and psychological torture” resulting in his dying. She stated the notice needs to be handled as a dying declaration and urged authorities to behave swiftly to forestall interference or tampering with proof.She additionally sought everlasting safety for her household, significantly their two daughters, citing “severe risk and psychological misery.”The officer’s household reportedly refused to carry out his final rites till “justice is served.”The federal government’s transfer to reshuffle key police posts follows rising outrage throughout the civil and police providers, in addition to calls for from the general public for accountability and transparency within the probe.