The Punjab Police has filed case against their former top boss Sumedh Singh Saini (Retd.IPS:1982:PB) in a 1991 case, pertaining to the disappearance of Balwant Singh Multani.
Saini was SSP Chandigarh at that time, when four policemen in his security, were killed in a terrorist attack. Multani was by picked by the police after the attack.
Saini has been charged under 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) in Mohali on Wednesday evening.
On a complaint of his kidnapping by Multani’s father, a CBI probe was initiated against Saini in 2007, on the directions of the Punjab and Haryana high court, only to be quashed later by the Supreme Court.
Reacting to the development, Saini accused the chief minister of trying to settle personal score and having him booked for corruption.
Saini became a thorn in the eye of Capt. Amarinder Singh-led Congress government with the surfacing of the sacrilege cases in 2015. He had challenged the Vigilance Bureau’s closure report in the Ludhiana City Centre scam in which Amarinder was an accused.
