CHANDIGARH, Punjab—Postponing the final decision on Sumedh Saini’s anticipatory bail plea to August 27, the Mohali Court has stayed the arrest of Ex-DGP Sumedh Saini for two days. Notably, Sumedh Saini had moved a plea seeking anticipatory bail yesterday.
Sources have informed that the Court of Judge Rajneesh Garg will announce its verdict on August 27.
It is pertinent to note here that section 302 of IPC (the charge for murder) was invoked in the FIR pertaining to the abduction and murder of innocent Sikh youth Balwant Singh Multani.
Sumedh Saini succeeded in evading his arrest as he holds special relaxation from the Punjab & Haryana High Court requiring Police to serve three days prior notice before arresting him.
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 in this attack 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.
Two cops namely Jagir Singh and Kuldeep Singh have turned approver against Sumedh Saini after which the Court had directed SIT to invoke murder charges in this case.
