New Delhi, Oct. 12 -- Mallikarjun Kharge penned a letter to IPS officer Y Puran Kumar's wife, Amneet P Kumar, expressing his "sorrow" over the Haryana cadre officer's alleged suicide.

Y Puran Kumar, 52, a 2001-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, was found with a gunshot wound in a room in the basement of his Sector 11 house on Tuesday.

"Your husband, senior IPS officer ADGP Y. Puran Kumar Ji of the Haryana cadre, has ended his life while battling social prejudices and disparities. This incident has deeply wounded my heart," Kharge wrote in the letter, dated Saturday, October 11.

IPS officer Y Puran Kumar was found dead in his house on Tuesday, October 7.

In a note he allegedly left behind, Kumar has named many "senior officers"...