New Delhi, Dec 19 (NationPress) The Supreme Court has declined to consider a petition presented by Harcharan Singh Bhullar, the suspended Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Punjab Police, who was seeking a halt to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) inquiry concerning two FIRs that allege he has accumulated disproportionate assets.

A Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant remarked that the Punjab and Haryana High Court is already addressing Bhullar’s petitions which challenge the CBI's authority to investigate these matters.

The Bench, which included Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi, advised the petitioner to seek his remedies through the High Court and chose not to intervene at this moment.

Noticing the Supreme Court's reluctance to engage with the case, senior advocate Vikram Chaudhary, representing Bhullar, requested permission to withdraw the writ petition, allowing him to pursue it in the Punjab and Haryana High Court instead.

The Bench, led by CJI Kant, subsequently dismissed the petition as withdrawn.

During the proceedings, Chaudhary argued that the P&H High Court incorrectly granted a month-long delay without considering the request for interim relief. He claimed that the CBI had “wrongfully assumed jurisdiction” in breach of Section 6 of the Delhi Special Police Establishment (DSPE) Act, as Punjab had retracted its general consent for CBI investigations.

Conversely, Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the CBI, informed the Supreme Court that Bhullar had been denied regular bail and that a chargesheet had already been submitted in the case.

Previously, the Punjab and Haryana High Court had refused to grant Bhullar any interim relief in his writ petitions. In an order dated December 4, a Bench comprising Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Sanjiv Berry stated that arguments in the case had already begun and that the interim relief sought was “more or less akin to the final relief.”

“The nature of the interim relief requested is closely related to the final relief, and since the arguments have already commenced, this Court declines the request for interim relief at this time,” the P&H High Court remarked, scheduling further hearings for January 12, 2026.

Bhullar, a 2007-batch IPS officer who was serving as DIG of the Ropar Range, was apprehended by the CBI on October 16 after allegedly being caught in the act of accepting a bribe of Rs 5 lakh from a scrap dealer. He is also implicated in a separate case concerning the alleged accumulation of assets beyond his known income sources.

During searches conducted at his residence in Chandigarh, the CBI confiscated cash exceeding Rs 7.36 crore, jewelry worth more than Rs 2.32 crore, 26 luxury watches, and documents related to almost 50 immovable properties registered under his family members' names.

A CBI court in Chandigarh had previously extended Bhullar’s judicial custody, and the Punjab government suspended him from service effective October 16, reinforcing its policy of zero tolerance towards corruption.