Chandigarh, Jan. 10 -- Denied bail by the trial court, suspended Punjab Police DIG Harcharan Singh Bhullar has now moved the Punjab and Haryana high court for bail in the corruption case registered by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on October 16 last year. On January 2, the trial court in Chandigarh had rejected his bail plea observing that the case was an alarming economic offence. In his fresh plea filed on Friday, Bhullar stated that the investigation had concluded and the challan was presented by CBI on January 3, thereby rendering further custodial interrogation "wholly unnecessary". The plea is likely to be taken up for hearing next week. It was further argued that the prosecution proposed to examine predominantly official witnesses, and the petitioner had been suspended from service, eliminating any plausible apprehension of influencing witnesses or tampering with evidence. The plea also raised arguments about jurisdictional issues - CBI action against an officer serving in Punjab, about which a separate petition has been filed by him before the high court and is still pending adjudication. The application said the petitioner had spent substantial period of time inside jail in a case wherein if convicted, he would get a maximum of seven years imprisonment. Hence, his continuous incarceration would amount to punitive detention before trial, contrary to the settled principles governing bail. Bhullar, 59, and middleman Krishanu Sharda, 29, a national-level hockey player, were arrested on October 16. The CBI had also registered a separate case of disproportionate assets against him in which chargesheet has yet to be filed by CBI. He secured a bail in this case on January 5. The bail plea of Krishanu Sharda was dismissed by the special CBI court on Friday. His lawyer argued that Sharda was a national-level hockey player and should be granted bail as trials for the Chandigarh team were scheduled for the National Hockey Championship next month. CBI's public prosecutor Narendra Singh strongly opposed the bail plea, stating that the bribe money was recovered from him. After hearing arguments from both sides, the court stated that serious evidence was there against him. The court rejected his bail plea, refusing to accept the hockey trial as a ground for bail....