Chandigarh, Nov. 2 -- A CBI court here sent suspended Ropar range DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar to a five-day remand, amid a day-long drama, with both the federal probe agency and Punjab Vigilance Bureau seeking his remand from respective courts in Chandigarh and Mohali.

CBI prosecutor Narender Singh had to shuttle between the Sector 43 Court complex in Chandigarh and the court of the chief judicial magistrate in Mohali, where the VB had filed an application seeking Bhullar's production warrants in a disproportionate assets (DA) case registered on Friday.

To be sure, CBI has also filed an assets case against Bhullar on October 29. Since his arrest on October 16, along with a "middleman Krishanu Sharda" for allegedly accepting Rs.5 lakh in...