CHANDIGARH: A CBI court here on Friday sent Punjab Deputy Inspector General of Police, Ropar Range, Harcharan Singh Bhullar, to 14 days' judicial custody following his arrest on bribery charges and the recovery of a massive amount of cash and jewellery weighing about 1.5 kg from his house.
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday arrested Bhullar, a senior Indian Police Service officer of the 2009 batch, along with middleman Kirshanu Sharda, in a bribery case involving Rs 8 lakh.
The arrest came after a scrap dealer filed a complaint alleging that DIG Bhullar demanded monthly bribes, referred to as "sewa-paani", in exchange for settling a 2023 first information report (FIR) against him.