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Punjab Deputy Inspector General of Police, Harcharan Singh Bhullar, was sent to 14 days’ judicial custody connected Friday (October 17, 2025), a time aft the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested him connected charges of bribery.
Mr. Bhullar, a elder Indian Police Service serviceman of the 2009 batch, was produced earlier the CBI tribunal successful Chandigarh. “We sought 14 days’ judicial custody for the accused persons. The tribunal of Alka Malik has granted the judicial custody till October 30,” Narender Singh, counsel for the CBI, told The Hindu. The arrested serviceman was posted arsenic DIG, Ropar Range successful Punjab.
“The CBI’s grounds for the custody included apprehension of his (accused) influencing the witnesses, tampering with grounds and different obstructing the just people of investigation,” Mr. Singh added.
The CBI had arrested Mr. Bhullar on with his subordinate Kirshanu Sharda successful a bribery lawsuit involving ₹8 lakh. The serviceman was besides allegedly seeking recurring monthly amerciable payments from the complainant, according to the CBI.
“A lawsuit was registered by CBI connected October 16 against the accused nationalist servant and his subordinate connected allegations that the serviceman demanded a bribe of Rs 8 lakh and monthly amerciable gratification done his middleman for “settling” an FIR registered against the complainant and ensuring that nary further coercive oregon adverse constabulary enactment was taken against his business,” the CBI connection said.
The CBI caught the backstage idiosyncratic red-handed portion demanding and accepting ₹8 lakh from the complainant connected behalf of Bhullar successful Chandigarh, the connection said, adding that during searches astatine assorted premises linked to the nationalist servant successful Punjab and Chandigarh.
The CBI besides recovered important currency and incriminating material, including currency of astir ₹7.5 crore, golden jewellery weighing astir 2.5 kilogram, 26 luxury watches and documents pertaining to much than 50 immovable properties held successful the names of household members and suspected ‘benami’ entities, the connection added.
