Punjab: For the appointment of senior IPS officer Sumedh Singh Saini as Director General of Police here the Punjab and Haryana High court upheld.<\/p>\n
A division bench of Chief Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri and Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain dismissed a petition filed by an NGO in April last year challenging Saini’s appointment as Punjab DGP by the SAD-BJP government.<\/p>\n
Saini, then Chief Director of Punjab Vigilance Bureau, was appointed as DGP of Punjab Police on March 14 last year.<\/p>\n
“All procedural formalities were taken care of while appointing Saini as the DGP and we do not find any fault in his appointment,” according to the bench, dismissing the PIL.<\/p>\n
The NGO, Voices for Freedom, had in its petition alleged that all procedures were not followed and Saini was appointed to the top post despite a criminal case of alleged abduction and killing of three persons in Ludhiana district pending against him.<\/p>\n
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