Hours before arrest Sumedh Singh Saini moved High Court for relief

Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 19

Hours before his arrest by the Vigilance Bureau, Punjab’s former Director-General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini had moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court. Among other things, the former top cop is seeking directions for extension of blanket bail to him in all cases. The matter is scheduled to come up for hearing Thursday morning before Justice Arun Kymar Tyagi of the High Court.

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Saini had moved the High Court in November last year also for extending the protection granted by the High Court, vide order dated October 11, 2018, to “any incident pertaining to the entire service career of the applicant/petitioner”.

Taking up his plea expressing apprehensions of false implication in criminal matters “on account of malice, malafides and ulterior motives on the part of the political party in power in the State”, the High Court had in October 2018 directed the issuance of seven-day advance notice in case action was contemplated against him.