Chandigarh, March 21 (IANS) Punjab Police on Friday registered a case in the police station of Civil Lines in Patiala on the statement of Col Pushpinder Singh Bath regarding an incident of assault by police officials which occurred on the intervening night of March 13-14.
The statement of Colonel Bath names the police officials who assaulted him and also gives the roles attributed to each person in the assault.
A high-level Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by S.P.S. Parmar, Additional Director General of Police, Law and Order, Punjab, including Sandeep Malik, Senior Superintendent of Police, Hoshiarpur, and Manpreet Singh, Superintendent of Police, Rural, SAS Nagar has been constituted by the Director, Bureau of Investigation, Punjab, for conducting investigations in a fair and expeditious manner.
The SIT has been directed to conduct the investigation on day-to-day basis for collection of evidence and further legal proceedings, in order to ensure that the culprits are proceeded against as per law.
A Punjab Police spokesperson stated that instructions have been issued to the DIG (Patiala Range) to immediately transfer the police officials concerned out of Patiala district so that investigation can be conducted in a fair manner.
The spokesperson further added that all the 12 police officials have been placed under suspension and departmental proceedings for major punishment have been initiated against them.
The Additional Director General of Police, Security, Punjab has been directed to provide adequate protection to the family of Col Pushpinder Singh Bath.
—IANS
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