Chandigarh, September 12
The Mohali court on Saturday issued an arrest warrant for former Punjab Deputy General Sumedh Singh Saini in connection with the 1991 disappearance of Balwant Singh Multani.
The court ordered the police to present Saini before September 25, according to the order.
Saini, the former Punjab Police Chief Executive, remains elusive despite the Punjab Police special investigation team raiding several locations to catch him.
Saini, whose whereabouts is still unknown, was booked in May in connection with Multani’s disappearance in 1991 when he was working as a junior engineer at the Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation.
On Tuesday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court dismissed Saini’s release on bail in this matter.
The higher court had also dismissed Saini’s second petition seeking to overturn an FIR in the case or transfer the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
A court in Mohali had dismissed his bail declaration on September 1.
Last month, the police had added a murder charge under IPC Section 302 to the FIR in the Multani disappearance case after two former Chandigarh police officers, former UT police inspector Jagir Singh and former ASI Kuldeep Singh, who are also co-defendants, converted the approver in the disappearance case.
On 3 September, the Punjab police had claimed that Saini “ran away” leaving behind his assigned Z plus security.
Saini had left his Chandigarh residence without the Punjab police security personnel or security vehicles, including a jamming vehicle.
Balwant Multani, who lived in Mohali, was detained by the police after a terrorist attack against Saini, who was then the chief superintendent of police in Chandigarh, in 1991.
However, the police later claimed that Balwant Multani had escaped from the custody of the Qadian police in Gurdaspur.
Saini and six other people were booked for the complaint of Balwant Multani’s brother, Palwinder Singh Multani, a resident of Jalandhar.
The case was registered against him under articles 364 (kidnapping or kidnapping with the purpose of murder), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of the crime), 344 (illicit confinement), 330 (causing damage voluntarily) and 120 (B) ( criminal conspiracy). of the Indian Penal Code at Mataur Police Station in Mohali. PTI
