Chandigarh, Oct 16 || The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday caught red-handed Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General (Ropar Range) Harcharan Singh Bhullar from Mohali for accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh.
It’s learnt that the CBI had laid a trap to arrest him red-handed.
Sources said the 2007-batch Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, Bhullar, was accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh every month from a businessman.
He was arrested on a bribery complaint. Official sources said the police officer was receiving instalments of bribes from various individuals or companies on a monthly basis, and this arrest was related to one of the bribery complaints.
The police official will be produced in a CBI court in Chandigarh later in the day.