Mohali court rejected the bail plea of former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini in the alleged kidnapping and murder of Balwant Singh Multani case

Mohali: A Mohali court on Tuesday rejected the bail plea of former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini in the alleged kidnapping and murder of Balwant Singh Multani case.

The public prosecutor sought his arrest to probe the alleged killing of Balwant Singh Multani.

Sumedh Singh Saini

Mohali police and the Special Operations Group (SOG) had raided Saini’s house on August 29 but Saini was not found at home.

The court had reserved orders for a day on Thursday on Saini’s interim bail application.

Sumedh Singh Saini and six other police officers were booked in a 29-year-old case of the alleged abduction, torture and stage-managed elimination of Balwant Singh Multani, son of former IAS officer Darshan Singh Multani.

Sumedh SainiBalwant, the victim, was accused of carrying out an attack on Saini when he was the Chandigarh SSP on December 11, 1991.

He, along with Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar- a convict in Delhi bomb blast case- and two others, was booked but the police later claimed that Balwant escaped from the custody of Gurdaspur police.