Ex-DGP Saini arrest: High Court restricts trial court, directs not to decide on remand

Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday directed trail court in Mohali to not to take any decision on granting remand of former DGP Sumedh Singh Saini.

The further detailed orders in the matter are awaited.

The Punjab Vigilance Bureau has arrested the former DGP Punjab Sumedh Singh Saini in a corruption case on Wednesday.

A case under Sections 409, 420 and Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 and many other sections at Police Station,VB, Punjab at Mohali. He was produced in the local CJM court of SAS Nagar on Thursday to get his remand.

Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of Vigilance Bureau said that the Director of WWICS Estates Private Ltd Davinder Singh Sandhu in colluding with Deputy Director Ashok Sika PCS, now retired, and Senior Town Planner Sagar Bhatia, now retired and others officials of local government converted illegally an agriculture land into residential colonies namely Green Meadows-1 and Meadows-2 at Kurali, S.A.S district by fraudulently hiding the actual facts and showing fake documents in the year 2013.