A local court on Monday has granted anticipatory bail to former director general of Punjab police Sumedh Saini, who faces criminal charges in a 29-year-old case of abduction of the son of a former IAS officer.
Himmat Singh Deol , who argued the case for Saini, said the former top cop would extend his cooperation to the police for investigations.
Pardeep Virk, counsel for complainant Palwinder Singh Multani , said they would decided their next course of action only after they get a copy of the court’s order.
Saini filed an application for anticipatory bail last Friday, two days after he and seven other policemen were booked for the abduction, torture and stage-managed elimination of Balwant Singh Multani. the son of former IAS officer Darshan Singh Multani.
According to ex Panjab Police accomplice Gurmeet Pinky, Saini was so incensed that the interrogation of Balwant was producing nothing, that he instructed an officer to sodomise Multani. Multani died of the horrendous serial assault, his lifeless body was shot with rounds of AK47 bullets and the media were given a story of the pace being involved in an encounter with militants. The notorious fake encounters of the despicable Panjab police that liquidated and annihilated an entire generation of young Sikhs.