High Court dismisses bail plea of former DGP Sumedh Saini

Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday dismissed former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini's two pleas including an anticipatory bail plea in the 1991 Balwant Singh Multani disappearance case.

Besides an anticipatory bail plea in the matter, Saini had also filed a petition in the high court seeking either quashing of the case or transfer of the matter to the CBI.

Saini was booked in May in connection with the disappearance of Multani in 1991 when he was working as a junior engineer with the Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation.

Saini had approached the high court after a Mohali court dismissed his bail plea in this case on September 1.

The Punjab police on September 3 had claimed that Saini had absconded while denying his wife's claims of withdrawal of his security cover.

Saini faces arrest as Mohali court had on August 21 allowed the Punjab police to add a murder charge against him in this case.

This came after two former Chandigarh police personnel, former UT police Inspector Jagir Singh and former ASI Kuldeep Singh, who are also co-accused, turned approver in the disappearance case.

Saini and six others were booked on the complaint of Balwant Multani's brother, Palwinder Singh Multani.

The case was registered against them under sections 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 344 (wrongful confinement), 330 (voluntarily causes hurt) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code at Mataur police station in Mohali.