ADGP Puran Kumar Wrote Will, Tried Calling IAS Wife 15 Times Before Suicide

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Chandigarh: A series of chilling details have emerged in the death of Haryana’s Additional Director General of Police (ADGP) Y. Puran Kumar, revealing that the senior IPS officer had written a will before penning a nine-page suicide note—and had desperately tried to contact his IAS wife just hours before ending his life.

According to sources, Puran Kumar made as many as 15 phone calls to his wife, an IAS officer currently accompanying Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on an official visit to Japan. However, she did not answer the calls, reportedly because she was occupied with the delegation’s schedule. Roughly two and a half hours later, the officer is believed to have taken his own life at his residence in Sector  11, Chandigarh.

After missing her husband’s repeated calls, the IAS officer called their daughter from Japan, asking her to check on her father and speak with him. The daughter, who was out shopping at the time, said she would do so after returning home. When she arrived, she went down to the basement—only to find her father lying motionless on the sofa, bleeding from his temple. Horrified, she immediately contacted her maternal uncle, who is a sitting MLA in Punjab, to inform him of the incident.

Earlier that morning, Puran Kumar had instructed his household staff not to enter the basement, telling them that he was engaged in some “important work.” The officer’s body was later found in the soundproof home theatre room of the basement, where he is believed to have ended his life in solitude.

A suicide note was sent before death.
Investigators have recovered both a handwritten will and a nine-page suicide note. In the will, Puran Kumar is said to have bequeathed all his property to his wife. Both documents were sent by him to his wife and two IPS colleagues shortly before his death. Upon reading them, his wife reportedly made frantic attempts to call him back, but none of her calls were answered.

The will was dated October 6, a day before the suicide note, which bore the date October 7. This timeline indicates that the officer had already resolved to take the extreme step well in advance. The discovery of these documents—along with his unanswered phone calls—has deepened the mystery surrounding the circumstances that may have led one of Haryana’s senior-most police officers to such a tragic end.

An investigation is underway to ascertain what might have triggered the officer’s final decision, even as questions continue to swirl around the sequence of events leading up to his death.

 

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