Chandigarh, Oct. 11 -- Several Haryana IAS officers on Friday voiced their concerns at the police functioning in the state in what they termed as the "disclosure-based persecution" of public servants.

During a meeting of the Haryana IAS Officers Association convened to condole the death of IPS officer, Y Puran Kumar and express solidarity with his family, a number of IAS officers were learnt to be extremely vocal about the state police regularly using its authority in an "overbearing and unreasonable" manner. The meeting was chaired by chief secretary, Anurag Rastogi.

This, the IAS officers, said was more apparent in application of provisions of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act where after a 2018 amendment in the law it was obligat...