Assets case: Former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini seeks 15 days to join probe

Tribune News Service

Mohali, September 1

Former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini did not join the investigation in response to a Vigilance Bureau notice in a disproportionate assets case related to his Sector 20 house today. The Vigilance Bureau had set the deadline of September 1 for Saini to join the investigation.

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“Saini sent an email to the Vigilance Bureau office in the morning through his lawyer stating he could not join the probe today. He has sought a time of at least 15 days to join the investigation,” said a Vigilance official.

Summons were sent to him in this regard and a notice was also pasted outside his house. On August 18, Saini was arrested in a case for having committed offence of forgery in order to stall the process of attachment of a house in Sector 20D, Chandigarh, by the court of special judge, Mohali. Saini has been claiming to be a tenant in the house after his retirement. However, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ruled his arrest was in violation of earlier orders.

The Vigilance later decided to file a recall petition in the High Court against the August 19 release orders of Saini in a land fraud case, and also against the court’s interim bail order of August 12 in the disproportionate assets case.