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The court will do justice, and we will answer everything,\u201d Bhullar said during his appearance before the Chandigarh CBI court, which sent him to 14-day judicial custody.<\/p>\n<p>Bhullar and his middleman, Krishnu, were taken into custody by the CBI on October 16. Following the arrests, the agency conducted searches at Bhullar\u2019s house and farmhouse, recovering cash, gold, luxury watches, firearms, bank documents, and other assets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chandigarh: Punjab Police DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar, who was arrested by the CBI in a bribery case on Thursday, told the media on Friday that all allegations against him are false. \u201cThe allegations are completely baseless. I will prove my innocence in court. The court will do justice, and we will answer everything,\u201d Bhullar said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,20],"tags":[10227,10237,10226,10236,10168,10235,10233,10229,10234,10232,10231,10225,10230,10228,10224],"class_list":["post-53421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest","category-punjab","tag-bhullar-said-during-his-appearance-before-the-chandigarh-cbi-court","tag-and-other-assets","tag-and-we-will-answer-everything","tag-bank-documents","tag-chandigarh-punjab-police-dig-harcharan-singh-bhullar","tag-firearms","tag-gold","tag-krishnu","tag-luxury-watches","tag-recovering-cash","tag-the-agency-conducted-searches-at-bhullars-house-and-farmhouse","tag-told-the-media-on-friday-that-all-allegations-against-him-are-false-the-allegations-are-completely-baseless-i-will-prove-my-innocence-in-court-the-court-will-do-justice","tag-were-taken-into-custody-by-the-cbi-on-october-16-following-the-arrests","tag-which-sent-him-to-14-day-judicial-custody-bhullar-and-his-middleman","tag-who-was-arrested-by-the-cbi-in-a-bribery-case-on-thursday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Punjab DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar denies bribery charges, says he will prove innocence in court - PunjabENews<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/latest\/punjab-dig-harcharan-singh-bhullar-denies-bribery-charges-says-he-will-prove-innocence-in-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Punjab DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar denies bribery charges, says he will prove innocence in court - PunjabENews\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chandigarh: Punjab Police DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar, who was arrested by the CBI in a bribery case on Thursday, told the media on Friday that all allegations against him are false. \u201cThe allegations are completely baseless. 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