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.

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The orders were passed by Justice Avneesh Jhingan after hearing detailed arguments on behalf of the petitioner and the state.

Saini had moved the High Court after a Mohali court rejected his anticipatory bail application two days back.

As per the case, Saini along with six others including Nimratdeep Singh; Surinderjit Singh Jaspal, Ajay Kaushal, Parduman Singh, Paramjit Singh and Amit Singla in the FIR have been booked by the VB under Sections 109, 120-B of the IPC and the Prevention of Corruption Act recently as he was accused of assisting Punjab XEN Nimratdeep in amassing assets beyond his known sources of income.

In this case, a VB team had also raided Saini’s residence in Sector 20 here to arrest him on Tuesday and it continued searching his house for hours.

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