Police question security personnel attached with Punjab ex-DGP Saini

Chandigarh, 13 Sep 2020- An SIT of the Punjab Police has questioned 26 security personnel attached with former state DGP Sumedh Singh Saini, who is evading arrest in a 1991 disappearance case.
The absconding former Punjab Director General of Police is a Z plus category protectee.
Saini, whose whereabouts are still unknown, was booked in May in connection with the disappearance of Mohali resident Balwant Singh Multani, who worked as a junior engineer with Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation.
During questioning, some of his security personnel shared Saini’s last location with the special investigation team (SIT), officials said on Sunday.
An inspector-rank security official told the investigators in a statement that he remained with Saini at his residence in Delhi from August 12 to 22, the official said. He was sent back to Punjab on August 22 by Saini.
A head constable-rank security personnel told the SIT that he saw the former state police chief at his Delhi residence on August 22. He too was sent back and now deployed at Saini’s Chandigarh residence.
An assistant sub-inspector told the SIT that he last met Saini on August 12 at the latter’s residence in Chandigarh, the officials said.
Saini continues to remain elusive despite the SIT conducting raids at several places in Punjab, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana and Delhi.
The case was registered under Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), 330 (voluntarily causes hurt), 344 (wrongful confinement) and 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder) of the Indian Penal Code. (Agency)