Sumedh Saini’s bail plea rejected

Mohali police and the Special Operations Group had raided Saini’s Sector-20 house on August 29

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 07:09 PM Sep 01, 2020 IST

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Mohali, September 1

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.

He now has the option of moving the high court. The public prosecutor sought his arrest to probe the alleged killing of Balwant Singh Multani.

Mohali police and the Special Operations Group (SOG) had raided Saini’s Sector-20 house on August 29. Mohali DSP (Detective) Bikramjit Singh had led the raid 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.

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