Mar 28, 2025 06:09 PM IST
Amardeep Singh Rai replaces SPS Parmar, who was posted as Vigilance Bureau chief director on Thursday.
The Punjab authorities on Friday appointed extra director common of police (ADGP), site visitors, Amardeep Singh Rai as the pinnacle of the particular investigation crew (SIT) probing the assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bathtub and his son Angad in Patiala on March 13. Rai replaces SPS Parmar, who was posted as Vigilance Bureau chief director on Thursday.
Punjab Police had shaped a three-member SIT on March 21, every week after the incident, with Hoshiarpur senior superintendent of police Sandeep Malik and Mohali rural superintendent of police Manpreet Singh as the 2 different members. (HT File)
Punjab Police had shaped a three-member SIT on March 21, every week after the incident, with Hoshiarpur senior superintendent of police Sandeep Malik and Mohali rural superintendent of police Manpreet Singh as the 2 different members. The SIT was directed to conduct the investigation each day.
Colonel Bathtub, who has accused 12 Punjab Police personnel of assaulting him and his son over a parking dispute outdoors a dhaba in Patiala on the intervening evening of March 13 and 14, had not appeared earlier than the SIT on Tuesday, citing his plea within the Punjab and Haryana excessive courtroom looking for the switch of the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
The military officer, who’s recuperating from an elbow fracture at his home in Patiala after he was discharged from Command Hospital, Chandimandir, had knowledgeable the SIT {that a} petition has already been instituted on his behalf beneath Part 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, earlier than the excessive courtroom, whereby he has requested that the probe be handed over to the CBI or one other unbiased company.
“Since the high court is seized of the matter pertaining to the instant FIR, it is requested that the proceedings be deferred until the outcome of the petition,” learn the applying submitted by Colonel Bathtub earlier than the SIT.
SIT members mentioned they might proceed additional in accordance with the excessive courtroom’s orders.
