SNE Network.Chandigarh.
Former Chandigarh SSP and Jalandhar Police Commissioner Kuldeep Singh Chahal was questioned for 3 hours at the Chandigarh CBI Headquarters in connection with alleged corruption and misconduct. Chahal is accused of alleged corruption and malpractices when he was the SSP of Chandigarh.
Banwarilal Purohit, the governor of Punjab and administrator of Chandigarh, had given a complaint against Chahal. After this the CBI has started the investigation. Kuldeep Chahal reached the CBI headquarters in Chandigarh Sector 30 at 11 am on Friday and was questioned till 2 pm. The officer said that 2009 batch Punjab cadre IPS Kuldeep Chahal was on deputation to Chandigarh and was sent back to his parent cadre Punjab in December last year, 10 months before the end of his three-year tenure.
CM had expressed surprise
In a letter to the Governor, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had expressed surprise over Chahal’s premature return to Punjab and the handing over of the Haryana-cadre IPS officer to the Union Territory of Chandigarh, saying it would upset the balance of states’ functioning. Is. Purohit had said that Mann “did not ascertain the facts” before writing to him on Chahal’s return.