Mohali, Jan. 8 -- Four years after former Punjab top cop Sumedh Singh Saini was nominated as an accused in a September 2020 FIR pertaining to an alleged fraudulent sale of a land in Kurali in Mohali district, the state police special investigation team (SIT) has cleared his name.

The high court-constituted SIT headed by IPS officer SS Srivastava, in a report, in Mohali court has said that it has been found after investigation that Saini was not involved in any criminal activity related to this FIR. It also said that he did not motivate any of the accused to commit the crime in question. Hence, he is declared "innocent" in the case in question, the SIT report submitted on Wednesday said.

Saini was arrested by the vigilance bureau in this...