High Court Dismisses Anticipatory Bail Plea Of Former Punjab Top Cop In 29-Year-Old Case
Sumedh Singh Saini has been charged for abduction and disappearance of a junior engineer in 1991.
Chandigarh:
The Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom has rejected the anticipatory bail plea of former director basic of police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini in reference to a 29-year-old abduction and homicide case.
The court docket has additionally grew to become down his request to switch the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The improvement has now cleared the best way for the Punjab police to arrest the previous best cop, who, the police declare has long gone underground to evade arrest within the case. Mr Saini, consistent with Punjab police, went lacking after he left his Chandigarh place of abode on September three.
Mr Saini, who’s a “Z+” class protectee of the state govt, left with out Punjab Police safety group of workers and safety automobiles, together with the jammer car, on his personal, the Particular Investigation Workforce (SIT) probing the Multani disappearance case had stated.
In 1991, Balwant Singh Multani, a junior engineer with Chandigarh Commercial and Tourism Company, was once picked via police after the terrorist assault on Mr Saini, who was once the then senior superintendent of police in Chandigarh.
Police had later claimed that Multani had escaped from the custody. He were lacking since.
A case was once filed towards Mr Saini and 6 others in Might in line with the criticism of Balwant Multani’s brother Palwinder Singh Multani. Two former Chandigarh police group of workers, who’re additionally co-accused, have grew to become approvers within the case.
With inputs from PTI
