CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Three decades after the brutal murder of innocent Sikh youth Balwant Singh Multani, the killer cop Sumedh Saini has been finally been booked for his heinous crime. The Special Investigation Team probing this case has added Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code in the FIR registered in relation to Balwant Singh Multani’s enforced disappearance case.
As Section-302 denotes a non-bailable offense so the arrest of Sumedh Saini seems almost sure after three days because the SIT can’t arrest Sumedh Saini without prior notice of three days.
The SIT is learned to have served three days prior notice to Sumedh Saini today in this regard.
It is pertinent to note here that the indictment of Sumedh Saini under murder charges has become possible because two former cops namely Inspector Jagir Singh and Assistant Sub Inspector Kuldeep Singh, who are eyewitness of brutal torture on Multani, have turned approver in this case.
Yesterday, their statements were recorded before the court under Section 164 of the CrPC i.e. on turning approver in this disappearance case.
In 1991, the Chandigarh 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, while he survived the attack.
After abducting Balwant Singh Multani, the cops had committed inhuman torture on him at the behest of Sumedh Saini.
“During the night of December 13, 1991, the cops of Sector-17 police station produced Balwant Singh Multani before Sumedh Saini. He was tortured so cruelly that he was left unable to stand. When he fell down, Sumedh Saini kicked him so cruelly that his eye came out. Next morning, he was lying unconscious in a pool of blood. Saini came and ordered the cops to put him inside a vehicle and they took him along with them,” an eyewitness Gursharan Kaur Mann had revealed in May this year.
In 2007, the Punjab & Haryana High Court had ordered a CBI inquiry into this case. The CBI had found enough evidence against Sumedh Saini after which an FIR was registered against him, 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.
On May 6, the Mohali police had registered a fresh FIR on the complaint of victim Balwant Singh Multani’s brother Palwinder Singh Multani 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.
Shame on Badals for promoting this goon to DIG and Supreme Court judges to let him go in previous case. I hope all goons like these rot in wombs forever as Gurbani teaches us.
Evil Monster and his gang of thug police have got away with hundreds, if not thousands of other deaths. Hope you hang you coward.