The Special Investigation Team of Punjab Police on Thursday carried out raids in Himachal Pradesh and Delhi to nab former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini who is facing arrest in the 1991 Balwant Singh Multani disappearance case. However, the former Director General of Police remained elusive.
Officials on Wednesday had said that they had carried out raids at residences of associates of Saini at various places including Hoshiarpur and Mohali in Punjab, Dabwali and Sirsa in Haryana, and Delhi.
Saini, whose whereabouts were still unknown, was booked in May in connection with the disappearance of Multani in 1991 when he was working as a junior engineer with Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation.
The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday had dismissed Saini's anticipatory bail plea in this matter. The bench of Justice Fateh Deep Singh had also dismissed Saini's second petition that sought quashing of FIR (first information report) in the case or the transfer of investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Saini had approached the high court after his bail plea was dismissed by a Mohali court on September 1.