CHANDIGARH: With the demand for action against key accused in Haryana IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar’s death issue, the Haryana government has sent Director General of Police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kapur on leave.
The additional charge of DGP has been assigned to Om Parkash Singh, IPS, currently Managing Director, Haryana Police Housing Corporation, during the leave period of Shatrujeet Singh Kapur.
Meanwhile Congress leader and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met the family of Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, who allegedly shot himself at his residence on October 7, urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini to take immediate action. Gandhi said the incident sends a “wrong message to Dalits that no matter how successful you are, if you are Dalit, you can be crushed”. Gandhi meanwhile met the senior IPS officer’s family at their home in Chandigarh. Senior Congress leaders Deepender Singh Hooda and Kumari Selja accompanied him.
Speaking to the media he said, “This is not just about one family. There are crores of Dalit brothers and sisters in the country. A wrong message is going out to them, that no matter how successful, intelligent, or capable you are, if you are a Dalit, you can be crushed, trampled, and thrown away. This is not acceptable to us,” he said.
