CBI arrests Ropar Range DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar for accepting bribe, recovers crores of rupees and gold from his house. Punjab Police reprimanded by the High Court for wrongly arresting them for mistaking paracetamol tablets as drugs.
SNPNEWS.IN News Update (Gurmail Kamboj): On 16 October, CBI arrested Ropar Range DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar red-handed from its Mohali office after a complaint from a scrap dealer in Fatehgarh Sahib.
The complainant alleged that DIG Bhullar had demanded a bribe of Rs 5 lakh every month so that the case against him could be settled. The DIG had called the businessman to his Mohali office for the first installment, where the CBI arrested the DIG and the private individual who was acting as a mediator in the case.
After the arrest in the bribery case, three bags of notes, a purse and gold ornaments were found from Bhullar’s house in Chandigarh. In addition, raids were conducted at his office and a farmhouse in Khanna, from where cash and gold ornaments worth over Rs 1 crore were recovered. Digital records and suspicious documents were also seized during the raids, which could reveal other financial transactions.
No Punjab Police officer was included in the raid team, so that there could be no internal collusion. Bhullar was first taken to Panchkula and then brought back to Punjab.
Harcharan Singh Bhullar, 2007 batch IPS officer, has been posted in several districts, including Jagraon, Mohali, Sangrur and Patiala Range. In November 2024, he became DIG of Ropar Range. He played a key role in the Punjab Police’s ‘War on Drugs’ campaign, apart from this, he also led the Special Investigation Team in a drug trafficking case of Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, bhullar also worked in the Vigilance Bureau in the Bhagwant Mann government.
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Senior officers of the Punjab Police have adopted silence on this. The CBI has registered a case against Bhullar under the Prevention of Corruption Act and the entire matter is being investigated.
The Punjab government’s ‘War on Drugs’ campaign (Yudh Nashian Virudh) is once again under question.
On 16 October 2025, the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Chandigarh has strongly reprimanded the government for a wrongful arrest by the Punjab Police.
In the case, a youth was arrested by the Kapurthala Police under the NDPS (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances) Act, during forensic investigation it was found that the (alleged drugs) recovered from the youth were actually paracetamol tablets. Even after the forensic report came, the police did not cancel the arrest of the victim, due to which the youth had to stay in jail for more than 2 months.
Earlier, the anticipatory bail of the person arrested in this case was cancelled, on which a bail petition was filed in the High Court. The report submitted in the High Court clearly stated that the person was framed by claiming that paracetamol powder was a narcotic substance.
Terming it as “police negligence and violation of rights”, the court ordered the release of the victim youth on bail and, while strongly reprimanding the Punjab government, has now ordered the SSP of Kapurthala to take strict action against the investigating officer in this case and submit his report to the High Court in the first week of January.