India, Oct. 15 -- A Haryana police assistant sub-inspector was found dead with a gunshot wound on Tuesday along with a purported suicide note accusing of corruption the late inspector general Y Puran Kumar, the same senior officer whose alleged suicide exactly a week earlier put the state police's top brass under lens for casteism and bias.

Sandeep Lathar, a 41-year-old who hailed from the Jat community, accused Kumar, a Dalit, and his family of widespread graft in a four-page note and six-minute video, claiming he had "ample evidence" against the senior officer. HT could not independently verify the veracity of either the note or the video.

Lathar, who was originally from Julana in Jind, was part of the Rohtak CIA-2 team that intercept...