India, Oct. 9 -- Congress leaders Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Randeep Singh Surjewala on Thursday demanded an impartial investigation into the "forced suicide" of Dalit IPS officer Y Puran Kumar, 52, in Chandigarh on October 7.

The 2001-batch Haryana-cadre officer was found dead with a gunshot wound in the basement of his private residence in Sector 11, Chandigarh, on Tuesday afternoon but his autopsy is yet to be conducted as his bureaucrat wife, Amneet P Kumar, has demanded an FIR be registered on her complaint that accuses state director general of police Shatrujeet Kapur and Rohtak SP Narendra Bijarnia of abetment to suicide.

The nine-page "final note" left behind by Puran Kumar names "senior officers" and details "mental harassment" ...