A case has been registered against former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini.

Chandigarh: A case has been registered against former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini. According to information received, Sumedh Singh Saini was trying to reach Himachal this morning but was turned away by the Himachal Police as he did not had the valid pass.

File photoThe Punjab Police has registered a case against former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini in connection with the disappearance of Balwant Singh Multani in 1991. Sumedh Saini was the senior police officer of Chandigarh at that time. Balwant Singh Multani was picked up by two officers after a terrorist attack on Sumedh Saini in Chandigarh in which four policemen were killed in his custody.

The case was registered 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).

PhotoThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had started an investigation against Saini in the case in 2007 on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court but it was later dismissed by the Supreme Court.