SIT adds Section 302 against former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, August 21

In further trouble for former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) on Friday added Section 302 of the IPC in the case of disappearance of a former CITCO employee, Balwant Singh Multani.

As per the court orders, the SIT has given three days prior notice to Saini after adding Section 302 to the FIR.

The SIT’s action came when Mohali court gave it permission to add Section 302 of the IPC after two former UT cops, Inspector Jagir Singh and Assistant Sub Inspector Kuldeep Singh, yesterday recorded their statement before the court under Section 164 of the CrPC, on turning approver in the disappearance case.

The two former UT cops have also claimed in their statement in the court to have been eyewitnesses to the torture to Multani under custody of former DGP Saini and later shifting him in a Gypsy in an unconscious state. They also alleged that later they were told that Multani went missing.

The two cops were also allegedly asked to declare Multani as missing and absconded, following the orders of DGP which they did, they alleged before the court.

Earlier, three former UT cops, Inspector Jagir Singh, Sub Inspector Harsahai Sharma and Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Kuldeep Singh had filed an application in the court seeking permission to turn approver and be pardoned in the ongoing probe against them in the Multani case.

However, the court of CJM on August 7 turned down their plea for the want to approach from the proper channel — that is the investigating agency the Special Investigating Team (SIT) — which can make a request to the court tendering for pardon for the accused.

The SIT with the support of special public prosecutor Sartej Singh Narula and district attorney Sanjiv Batra on August 14 had moved an application on behalf of the three accused to declare them approver after which the court declared two out of three as approvers.

Inspector Jagir Singh is also co-accused along with Inspector Anokh Singh in another FIR registered at Kharar Sadar police station on July 27 on charges of fabricating the evidences booked under Section 195-A (fabricating evidence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the complaint of Kharar (Sadar) station house officer, Inspector Sukhvir Singh.

Anokh Singh and Jagir Singh are also co-accused in the previous FIR registered at Mataur police station against former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini.

Inspector Anokh Singh was arrested by Mohali police against fresh FIR and after taking him on three days police remand, he was sent to judicial custody. Anokh Singh and Jagir Singh are out on bail in this case.