New Delhi, Oct. 7 -- Senior Haryana police officer, IPS Y Puran Kumar, has reportedly died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his Chandigarh Sector 11 residence on Tuesday.

Kumar, an IPS from the 2000 batch, was the Assistant Director General of Haryana Police.

A number of senior officials reached the spot, along with a forensics team.

At the time of the incident, the deceased officer's wife, Amneet P Kumar, who is a senior IAS officer, was not at their residence. She is currently in Japan as part of an official delegation being led by the state's chief minister, Nayab Singh Saini, a report in The Tribune has revealed. She is expected to return on Wednesday evening.

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