Declining the request of defence counsel for a long adjournment of at least 10 days, Special Judge, CBI Court, Chandigarh has fixed hearing of the case on May 29, 2026, for arguments on framing of charges against suspended DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar and his associate Kirshanu Sharda arrested on October 16, 2025, in a corruption case registered by the CBI on the complaint of a person Akash Batta.
Batta alleged that Kirshanu, who is close to DIG met him and demanded of Rs 8 lakh in lieu of settling the FIR registered against him at Police Station Sirhind and as monthly payment for letting him run his business of scrap dealing.
The CBI court on March 13, 2026, had taken the cognisance in the case while observing that the demand, acceptance, recovery of bribe money, electronic evidence and corroborative witnesses statement, prima facie establish the criminal conspiracy hatched between the accused.
Meanwhile, the CBI Court has dismissed applications filed on behalf of accused Bhullar for de-freezing of accounts.
The court in the order of says that since the seizure was made in the trap case under suspicious link to the commission of offence in view of huge recovery, the same cannot be said to be an arbitrary or illegal one.
Earlier Special Judge, CBI Court, Chandigarh, has also dismissed another application filed by suspended DIG Bhullar for issuing the direction to CBI for supply of ‘unrelied documents’ and also copies of data retrieved from various electronic gadgets.
The court said that vide order dated April 24, 2026, this court has already allowed the transfer of certain ‘unrelied documents/articles’ of the FIR to the another Preliminary Enquiry registered by the CBI. Providing of said documents to the accused at this stage would give a road map of the investigation of another ongoing inquiry of the CBI to the accused.
As such the above inquiry would be adversely prejudiced and the supply of such documents to the accused at this stage would compromise the integrity of that inquiry. The charges are yet to be framed against the accused in the case and strictly speaking, the stage of trial has not commenced.
In view of this, the application is dismissed.
