New Delhi: Punjab’s Vigilance Bureau arrested former Punjab Director General of Police Sumedh Singh Saini on the night of August 19.The former state police chief had arrived at the Vigilance Bureau headquarters at Mohali at around 8 pm to join the investigation in a corruption case, when he was held.The Punjab and Haryana High Court on August 12 had granted interim anticipatory bail to Saini in this corruption case and asked him to join investigation within a week.It was not clear in which case Saini was arrested, however, an unnamed high-level functionary of Punjab Police told Indian Express that Saini was arrested in connection with a case different from the one he sought to join.“He was formally arrested in another case for having committed forgery in order to stall the process of attachment of house no. 3048, Sector 20-D, Chandigarh, by the court of Special Judge Mohali. Saini has been claiming to be a tenant in the house after his retirement,” the official said.Also read: Punjab: Sacrilege Issue Deepens Congress Disunity, Affects Party’s Poll ProspectsThe official did not tell the newspaper whether a fresh FIR had been lodged, against which the arrest was made.He was apprehended by the investigating officer after he allegedly refused to get off the car, the official told Express. PTI has also reported the same, quoting unnamed sources.Senior advocate APS Deol who appeared for Saini in the high court called his arrest “illegal”.He said that according to a high court order issued last year, a seven-day notice had to be given to Saini before arresting him in any case pertaining to any incident during his entire service career.The former DGP on August 17 had withdrawn from the high court a plea seeking directions to the Punjab Police not to arrest him in any other offence.Saini is a 1982-batch IPS officer. He was appointed the Director General of Police in 2012 and removed from the post in 2015 after the sacrilege protests. He retired in 2018, Express has noted.The Punjab Vigilance Bureau had booked Saini and six others under the Prevention of Corruption Act and relevant sections of the IPC on August 2, alleging that the former DGP had acquired a house in Chandigarh in a “fraudulent deal” with “fake documents”.In May 2020, Saini was also booked in the case of disappearance of Balwant Singh Multani in 1991. Multani was then a junior engineer with the Chandigarh Industrial and Tourism Corporation.The police later added murder charge under Section 302 of the IPC in the FIR in the disappearance case after two former Chandigarh Police personnel who were co-accused turned approver.(With PTI inputs)