India, March 24 -- Rejecting the opposition's demands for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe, chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday asserted that the Punjab Police is fully capable of investigating the alleged suicide of a state warehousing official. The case, which has triggered a political row, involves serious allegations of harassment against former cabinet minister and Patti AAP MLA Laljit Singh Bhullar.

Following Bhullar's exit from the cabinet, finance and taxation minister Harpal Singh Cheema has been allocated the transport portfolio, while Dr Ravjot Singh, the parliamentary affairs minister, has been handed the jails department.

Bhullar was arrested on Monday following the death of Gagandeep Singh Randhawa, the Am...