Multani case: SIT issues summons to Punjab ex-DGP Saini, asks him to join probe on Monday

Tribune News Service 

Mohali, September 27 

The Special Investigation Team (SIT) has issued summons to former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini to appear before it at Mataur police station at 11am on Monday in connection with alleged kidnapping and murder case Balwant Singh Multani. 

The summons was sent to the residences of Saini in Chandigarh and Delhi through a special messenger, but he was not found there. Hence, the summons were pasted outside his both houses. 

Sources in the SIT said copies of the summons were also sent to his counsel Himmat Singh Deol and H S Dhanoa over Whatsapp. 

Accompanied by his counsel, Saini appeared before the SIT on September 25 to join the investigations. However, the sources said the SIT would first issue summons to Saini and then asked him to join investigations. 

The Supreme Court had granted anticipatory bail to Saini in the case on September 15 and directed him to join investigations with the SIT. 

Saini was facing arrest in the case after the SIT added Section 302 of the IPC to the FIR registered against Saini when two co-accused turned approvers and deposed against Saini of being eyewitness to the inhumane torture given to Multani at Sector 17 police station.

Earlier, former Inspector Jagir Singh and ASI Kuldeep Singh also co-accused with Saini became approvers and were granted pardon in the case. Then, another person who was in the lockup along with Multani also became approver.

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

Balwant, 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, convict in a Delhi bomb blast case, and two others, was booked but the police later claimed Balwant escaped from the custody of Qadian (Gurdaspur) police.

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