Written by Jagpreet Singh SandhuChandigarh | October 12, 2025 07:50 PM IST 2 min readPuran Kumar, 52, was allegedly found dead with a gunshot wound at his Sector-11 residence in Chandigarh on Tuesday. (Express Photo)Chandigarh Police have added harsher charges under the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act to the FIR registered on the basis of a “final note” construed as the suicide note left behind by Haryana IPS officer Y Puran Kumar.Besides the provisions of abetment of suicide, the police had included section 3(1) (r) of the Act. Now section 3(2) (v) of the Act has also been added to the FIR, said Inspector-General Pushpendra Kumar, who is heading the six-member Special Investigation Team constituted to investigate the case.Puran Kumar, 52, was allegedly found dead with a gunshot wound at his Sector-11 residence in Chandigarh on Tuesday.As per the newly added section, anyone who commits an Indian Penal Code offence punishable by 10 years or more imprisonment against a person or property because they are a member of an SC or ST faces a punishment of life imprisonment and a fine.Key requirements for the charge are that the offence include that the accused had knowledge of the victim’s caste identity at the time of the offence.As per the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act section that was earlier invoked, a person not belonging to a SC or ST who intentionally insults or intimidates a member of such a community in any place within public view, with the intent to humiliate them, is punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but may extend to five years, and with a fine.The SIT, according to sources, has also summoned the record of the October 6 FIR No. 0319 registered by the Rohtak police at the Urban estate police station against head constable Sushil Kumar, who was a close confidant of Puran Kumar.Stay updated with the latest - Click here to follow us on Instagram© The Indian Express Pvt LtdTags:Chandigarh Police