Overview

• PGIMER conducted the post-mortem under magisterial supervision with full videography and a ballistic expert present, and the medical board will submit its report to the Chandigarh Police SIT.
• Puran Kumar was cremated in Chandigarh with police honours after a nine-day standoff ended following assurances of a fair investigation to his family.
• Chandigarh Police’s six-member SIT is investigating the case following an FIR based on the officer’s ‘final note’ alleging caste-based harassment, with SC/ST Act provisions invoked.
• The Haryana government has sent DGP Shatrujeet Kapur on leave and transferred Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarniya after they were named in the late officer’s note.
• A separate FIR has been registered on the complaint of Rohtak ASI Sandeep Kumar’s family after he was found dead with a gunshot wound following a purported video and note; Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini visited the bereaved family.