A Chandigarh court on Thursday came down heavily on the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) for its “very cryptic” FIR against the arrested and suspended DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar, observing that the state agency appeared to have assessed his 30 years of assets “within a time of less than half an hour”.

Extending Bhullar’s CBI custody by five days till November 11, Special CBI Judge Bhawna Jain observed that the VB appeared to have assessed Bhullar’s alleged disproportionate assets, spread over 30 years of service, “within less than half an hour” of receiving secret information.

The court’s observations came amid what is seen as a “saga of two FIRs” — a tug-of-war between the CBI and the VB over who first registered the disproportionate assets case against Bhullar. Both agencies filed FIRs on

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