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Tribune News Service
Mohali, May 8
A local court issued a notice to Punjab police on Friday asking them to submit complete records of a 29-year-old kidnapping case of the son of a former IAS officer.
The notice came as the court heard an advance bail request that the former Punjab chief police officer, Sumedh Singh Sainifiled, filed two days after he and seven other police officers were jailed for the kidnapping, torture and removal handled in the stage of Balwant Singh Multani.
Multani was the son of former IAS officer Darshan Singh Multani.
The court will now hear Saini’s advance bail request on Saturday.
Saini and the others were registered under sections 364 (kidnapping or kidnapping for the purpose of murder), 201 (causing the disappearance of evidence), 344 (unlawful confinement), 330 (who caused harm voluntarily to exhort confession) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) based on a complaint by Balwant Multani’s brother, Palwinder Singh Multani, on Wednesday night.
Palwainder Singh Multani claims that the police 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 Police Superintendent on December 11, 1991. He was hired along with Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar, a convict in the explosion case of the Delhi bomb. –and two others, but the police later claimed that Balwant escaped from the custody of the Qadian (Gurdaspur) police.
The others who booked together with Saini are DSP Baldev Singh, Deputy Inspectors Satbir Singh, Harsahai, Jagir Singh, Anoop Singh and ASI Kuldeep Singh.
Of the other suspects, Baldev Singh long ago withdrew from the police force, while Satbir Singh died after his retirement.
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