A local court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to former director general of Punjab police Sumedh Singh Saini, who faces criminal charges

Mohali: A local court on Monday granted anticipatory bail to former director general of Punjab police Sumedh Singh Saini, who faces criminal charges in a 29-year-old case of abduction of the son of a former IAS officer.

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Saini filed an application for anticipatory bail last Friday.

Saini was booked 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) and 120 (B) (criminal conspiracy) on the basis of a complaint by Balwant Multani’s brother Palwinder Singh Multani on Wednesday evening.

Sumedh Singh SainiPalwinder Singh Multani claims the cops abducted, tortured and killed his brother in police custody.

The others booked along with Saini are DSP Baldev Singh, Sub-Inspectors Satbir Singh, Harsahai, Jagir Singh, Anoop Singh, and ASI Kuldeep Singh.