By- Piyush Sarna
MOHALI: The Punjab police have registered a case against its former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini along with eight other accused for kidnapping of Balwant Singh Multani, son of then IAS officer, in 1991. Saini was then SSP Chandigarh.
As per FIR registered on Wednesday evening at the Mataur police station in Mohali, the other eight accused in the case are DSP Baldev Singh Saini; sub-inspectors Satbir Singh (no more), Harsahai Sharma, Jagir Singh and Anoop Singh; ASI Kuldeep Singh and one unknown person. The case has been registered 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), 219 (public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report contrary to law), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
The Chandigarh police had picked up Balwant after an attack on then SSP Saini in Chandigarh in which four cops in his security detail had died. The Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar was the mastermind of the RDX attack to blow up SSP Saini’s car on August 29, 1991.
FIR filed on complaint of victim’s brother
The FIR was registered on the complaint of victim Balwant’s brother, Palwinder Singh Multani, a native of Jalandhar. The victim’s father, Darshan Singh Multani, was a Punjab cadre IAS officer, who is no more. Former DGP Saini did not respond to calls. Till the filing of the report, none of the accused were arrested.
The complainant Palwinder has submitted, “My brother Balwant Singh Multani was unlawfully abducted, inhumanly tortured and killed in custody by Sumedh Singh Saini and police personnel under his command. His body was disposed of in order to destroy evidence and further cover up was manipulated by showing his escape from custody from police station Qadian.” Later, a case was registered against Balwant under Sections 223 (escape from confinement) and 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) against him at Qadian police station on December 19, 1991.
CBI initiated a probe in July 2008 against former DGP Saini on directions of Punjab and Haryana high court. But the Supreme Court later quashed the order stating that the high court bench did not have the jurisdiction to deal with the case. So the FIR registered by CBI was quashed.
MOHALI: The Punjab police have registered a case against its former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini along with eight other accused for kidnapping of Balwant Singh Multani, son of then IAS officer, in 1991. Saini was then SSP Chandigarh.
As per FIR registered on Wednesday evening at the Mataur police station in Mohali, the other eight accused in the case are DSP Baldev Singh Saini; sub-inspectors Satbir Singh (no more), Harsahai Sharma, Jagir Singh and Anoop Singh; ASI Kuldeep Singh and one unknown person. The case has been registered 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), 219 (public servant in judicial proceeding corruptly making report contrary to law), and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
The Chandigarh police had picked up Balwant after an attack on then SSP Saini in Chandigarh in which four cops in his security detail had died. The Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) terrorist Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar was the mastermind of the RDX attack to blow up SSP Saini’s car on August 29, 1991.
FIR filed on complaint of victim’s brother
The FIR was registered on the complaint of victim Balwant’s brother, Palwinder Singh Multani, a native of Jalandhar. The victim’s father, Darshan Singh Multani, was a Punjab cadre IAS officer, who is no more. Former DGP Saini did not respond to calls. Till the filing of the report, none of the accused were arrested.
The complainant Palwinder has submitted, “My brother Balwant Singh Multani was unlawfully abducted, inhumanly tortured and killed in custody by Sumedh Singh Saini and police personnel under his command. His body was disposed of in order to destroy evidence and further cover up was manipulated by showing his escape from custody from police station Qadian.” Later, a case was registered against Balwant under Sections 223 (escape from confinement) and 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension) against him at Qadian police station on December 19, 1991.
CBI initiated a probe in July 2008 against former DGP Saini on directions of Punjab and Haryana high court. But the Supreme Court later quashed the order stating that the high court bench did not have the jurisdiction to deal with the case. So the FIR registered by CBI was quashed.
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