Y. Puran Kumar, Haryana police officer, found dead in Chandigarh home

Senior Haryana police officer Y. Puran Kumar was found dead from a gunshot wound at his Chandigarh home on Tuesday afternoon, police said, in what investigators are treating as an apparent suicide. The body was discovered in the basement of the Sector 11 residence at about 1:30 pm, Chandigarh Senior Superintendent of Police Kanwardeep Kaur told reporters. A Central Forensic Science Laboratory team and local forensic experts were conducting an on-site examination and a postmortem was pending.

Preliminary inquiries indicate Kumar used his service revolver to shoot himself, officials said. No suicide note was recovered at the scene, and those present in the house at the time are being questioned as part of the inquiry, Kaur said. Police have registered an investigation to establish the sequence of events and any possible motive.

Kumar, a 2001-batch Indian Police Service officer, had recently been posted as inspector general at the Police Training Centre in Sunaria, Rohtak, after serving as Rohtak range inspector general, according to official accounts. Some reports have also described him by the rank of additional director general of police. He took charge at his new posting on...