Court likely to decide on transfer of case on July 2

MOHALI: On a plea seeking transfer of the case against former Punjab director general of police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini to another court, the district and sessions judge reserved order for July 2.

The application for transfer of the case from the court of additional district and sessions judge Monika Goyal was filed by Palwinder Singh in a 1991 case pertaining to the disappearance of his brother Balwant Singh Multani in which the former DGP is the main accused.

On Monday, the court of district and sessions judge Rajinder

Singh Rai heard the arguments.

Palwinder had filed the application after the additional district and sessions judge allowed interim bail to Saini in anticipation of the SIT adding Section 302 of the IPC to an earlier FIR.

Making a case for transfer, special public prosecutor Sartaj Singh Narula and district attorney Sanjeev Batra submitted, “The court granted anticipatory in a blanket manner for offence 302 if already added. Even when 302 was not added so far thus providing blanket coverage to the accused DGP.”