A Mohali court extended the interim bail of former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini till September 1 in the alleged kidnapping and murder of Balwant Singh Multani case.
Saini’s counsel APS Deol had moved the application in the court on Friday morning after the Mohali police and the Special Operations Group raided Saini’s Sector-20 house. Mohali DSP (Detective) Bikramjit Singh led the raid but Saini was not found at home.
The copy of the orders has yet come till the filing of this report. The court had reserved orders for a day on Thursday on Saini’s interim bail application.
Sumedh Singh Saini and six other police officers were booked in a 29-year-old case of the alleged abduction, torture and stage-managed elimination of Balwant Singh Multani, son of former IAS officer Darshan Singh Multani.
Balwant, the victim, was accused of carrying out an attack on Saini when he was the Chandigarh SSP on December 11, 1991. He, along with Devinder Pal Singh Bhullar — a convict in a Delhi bomb blast case — and two others, was booked but the police later claimed that Balwant escaped from the custody of Qadian (Gurdaspur) police.