August 03, 2022 6:34 am
Former Punjab DGP Punjab Sumedh Singh Saini has been named as an accused in the Kotakpura and Behbal Kalan police firing incidents, which took place when he was Punjab police chief.
April 09, 2022 3:36 am
Meanwhile, the Punjab and Haryana High Court declined Saini’s plea for the issuance of seven-day prior notice in case he was required in any other case henceforth.
September 11, 2021 2:46 pm
A bench of Justice Arvind Singh Sangwan, while issuing granting bail to the former top cop, observed that “the involvement of petitioner in multiple cases can be a political ploy in the wake of coming state legislative Assembly general elections".
August 30, 2021 6:03 am
Saini was the blue-eyed boy of Shiromani Akali Dal president and former deputy Chief Minister of the state, Sukhbir Badal, before his removal as DGP in October 2015 after the incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and police firing on protesters which killed two people.
August 22, 2021 3:57 am
The first recall petition will be against HC’s August 19 release order for Saini in a land fraud case, and the second against the court’s August 12 interim bail order in a disproportionate assets case against Saini. The High Court had termed Saini’s arrest on Wednesday “illegal”.
August 22, 2021 2:19 am
The first recall petition will be against the HC’s August 19 release order for Saini in a land fraud case, and the second against the court’s August 12 interim bail order in a disproportionate assets case against Saini.
August 20, 2021 7:42 am
Hours before he was arrested, Saini had moved the high court seeking directions for extension of protection of seven day notice/ blanket bail to him in all cases while submitting that Punjab government has flouted the orders already passed by the HC.
August 19, 2021 9:59 pm
Saini, who retired in June 2018, was arrested Wednesday night arrested by the Vigilance Bureau when he reached its office in Mohali to join the investigation in a disproportionate assets case registered against him but reportedly refused to get out from his vehicle.
August 03, 2021 9:53 am
On July 16, a Mohali court had ordered to provisionally attach House number 3048 in sector 20-D with directions that “tenant” Saini who was residing there would deposit Rs 2.5 lakh per month rent in government treasury.
October 11, 2020 3:52 am
The nomination in the case comes days after Saini was named as an accused in the Behbal Kalan police firing case.