
The arrest warrant towards Sumedh Singh Saini was issued on September 12 (File)
Chandigarh:
Former Punjab Director-General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini at present appeared earlier than a Mohali court docket, looking for the withdrawal of an arrest warrant towards him and mentioned he is able to be part of the investigation within the 1991 Balwant Singh Multani disappearance case.
The court docket issued a discover to the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Punjab Police, looking for its reply, and stuck September 30 as the following date of listening to.
The former DGP, alongside along with his counsel, appeared within the court docket of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Ravinder Kaur, mentioned Special Public Prosecutor Sartej Singh Narula.
Sumedh Singh Saini mentioned in his utility that the Supreme Court has granted him interim safety from arrest within the case and the non-bailable warrant issued towards him be withdrawn.
Sumedh Singh Saini additionally mentioned he was “ready and willing” to seem earlier than the investigating company and cooperate as and when required.
The former state police chief filed the appliance two days after he failed to seem earlier than the SIT for investigation on the Mataur police station in Mohali.
The arrest warrant towards him was issued by the court docket of Judicial Magistrate (First Class) Ravtesh Inderjit Singh on September 12.
The court docket had then directed the police to supply Sumedh Singh Saini by September 25.
The former DGP was charged in May in reference to the disappearance of Balwant Singh Multani, a junior engineer with Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation.
The police had final month added homicide cost beneath Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) within the case after former Chandigarh Police Inspector Jagir Singh and ex-ASI Kuldeep Singh, who’re additionally co-accused-turned-approvers.
Sumedh Singh Saini, a 1982-batch IPS officer, was the youngest DGP within the nation when he was appointed because the state police chief in 2012.
He was faraway from the submit in 2015 after protests erupted following desecration of spiritual texts. Sumedh Singh Saini retired in 2018.
Balwant Singh Multani, a resident of Mohali, was picked by the police after a terrorist assault on Sumedh Singh Saini, who was then the senior superintendent of police in Chandigarh.
Later, it was claimed that Balwant Singh Multani, son of a former IAS officer, had escaped from the custody of the Qadian police in Gurdaspur.
Sumedh Singh Saini and 6 others had been charged on the criticism of Balwant Multani’s brother Palwinder Singh Multani, a resident of Jalandhar.
Initially, the case was registered towards them for felony conspiracy, inflicting disappearance of proof of offence, voluntarily causes harm, wrongful confinement and kidnapping or abducting to be able to homicide of the IPC.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV employees and is printed from a syndicated feed.)