Sumedh Saini gets anticipatory bail in Balwant Singh Multani�s enforced disappearance case

:dateline:Monika Goyal, an additional district and sessions judge of Mohali, today granted anticipatory bail to �Ex-DGP Sumedh Saini in the enforced disappearance case of Sikh youth Balwant Singh Multani. Notably, Sumedh Saini had moved a plea seeking anticipatory bail on May 8 via Advocate Satnam Singh Kler.�

Advocate Satnam Singh Kler, who heads the Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission, had come under fire for representing a notorious killer cop in the Court after which he had separated himself from this case.

Later, Advocate APS Deol took up Sumedh Saini’s case and succeeded in anticipatory securing bail for his client today.�

On May 6, a fresh FIR No. 77/2020 was recently registered in the Mataur police station of Mohali under sections 364 (kidnapping or abduction in order to murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), 344 (wrongful confinement), 330 (voluntarily causing hurt to exhort confession) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) on the complaint of Balwant Singh Multani�s brother Palwinder Singh Multani.

Case Background:

In 1991, the Punjab police had abducted Balwant Singh Multani from his residence immediately after an attack on Sumedh Saini in Chandigarh. Four cops deployed in the security of Saini were killed in this attack while he survived the attack.

In 2007, the Punjab & Haryana High Court had ordered a CBI inquiry. The CBI had found enough evidence against Sumedh Saini after which an FIR was registered against Sumedh Saini along with three other cops namely SP (Operations) Baldev Singh Saini, SI Harsahai Sharma and Jagir Singh on July 4, 2008.

Later, this FIR was quashed by the Supreme Court of India after Saini challenged CBI inquiry and the High Court�s decision.

Now, the Mohali police have registered a fresh FIR on the complaint of victim Balwant Singh Multani�s brother against Sumedh Saini, SP (Operations) Baldev Singh Saini, SI Harsahai Sharma, SI Jagir Singh, SI Savir Singh, SI Anoop Singh, Kuldeep Singh and other unknown police cops.