Chandigarh, Nov. 7 -- A CBI special court on Thursday granted a five-day custody of suspended DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar to the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with a disproportionate assets (DA) case, while reprimanding the Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) for having "hastily" registered the DA case against the officer and terming the investigation of state agency as "cryptic".

Bhullar, who has been in CBI custody since October 31 in a corruption case, is facing fresh charges related to alleged amassing of assets beyond his known sources of income. The suspended DIG was produced before the court after his five-day remand in a corruption case ended.

The court, presided over by judge Bhawna Jain, allowed the CBI's request for ...