Mohali, May 11: A local court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to former director general of Punjab police Sumedh Singh Saini, who faces criminal charges in a 29-year-old case of abduction of the son of a former IAS officer.
Himmat Singh Deol , who argued the case for Saini, said the former top cop would extend his cooperation to the police for investigations.
Pardeep Virk, counsel for complainant Palwinder Singh Multani , said they would decided their next course of action only after they get a copy of the court’s order.
Saini filed an application for anticipatory bail last Friday—two days after he and seven other policemen were booked for the abduction, torture and stage-managed elimination of Balwant Singh Multani.
Multani was the son of former IAS officer Darshan Singh Multani.
Saini and the others were booked 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) on the basis of a complaint by Balwant Multani’s brother Palwinder Singh Multani on Wednesday evening.
Palwainder Singh Multani claims the cops abducted, tortured and killed his brother in police custody.
The victim Balwant Singh Multani was accused of carrying out an attack on Saini when he was the Chandigarh Senior Superintendent of Police on December 11, 1991. He was booked along with Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar—a convict in the Delhi bomb blast case—and two others, but the police later claimed Balwant escaped from the custody of Qadian (Gurdaspur) police.
The others booked along with Saini are DSP Baldev Singh, Sub-Inspectors Satbir Singh, Harsahai, Jagir Singh, Anoop Singh, and ASI Kuldeep Singh.
