Overview

• A 31-member committee set a 48-hour deadline to remove DGP Shatrujeet Kapur and arrest him and former Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya, warning of protests at the Governor’s and Chief Minister’s residences if unmet.
• Chandigarh Police confirmed the FIR now invokes Section 3 of the SC/ST Act following a plea by the officer’s wife, with a six-member SIT led by IG Pushpendra Kumar conducting the probe.
• The family has withheld consent for post-mortem and cremation, alleging the body was moved to PGIMER without consultation and insisting on action before last rites.
• The Haryana government transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya and appointed Surinder Singh Bhoria, an early administrative step after the officers were named in the note.
• Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini vowed action regardless of influence, as leaders including Mayawati, Sonia Gandhi, and Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann called for an independent or judicial inquiry.