Apr 03, 2025 12:20 PM IST
Chandigarh DGP advised to represent a particular investigation crew inside per week and the SIT would full the probe in 4 months.
The Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket on Thursday transferred the investigation into the latest assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Tub, allegedly by 12 Punjab Police personnel in Patiala, to Chandigarh Police.
The excessive court docket bench of justice HS Brar ordered that the Chandigarh director common of police (DGP) would represent a particular investigation crew inside per week and the SIT would full the probe in 4 months. (Representational picture)
The excessive court docket bench of justice HS Brar ordered that the Chandigarh director common of police (DGP) would represent a particular investigation crew inside per week and the SIT would full the probe in 4 months.
The detailed order is awaited.
In his petition, Colonel Tub had said that he and his son had been brutally attacked by 4 inspector-rank officers of Punjab Police and their armed subordinates, who snatched his id card and cell phone, and threatened him with a “fake encounter” over a parking dispute exterior an eatery in Patiala on the intervening evening of March 13 and 14.
The plea alleged that the colonel’s spouse, Jaswinder Kaur, was pressured by the policemen to strike a compromise and claimed that some personnel admitted to her over a video name that they had been drunk on the time of the incident.
Regardless of the petitioner and his household being the primary ones to report the incident, the FIR was first registered on March 14 on the premise of the assertion of the eatery proprietor and a contemporary FIR was registered on the colonel’s assertion on March 22.
Earlier, on two events, the case was heard by the bench of justice Sandeep Moudgil however on Thursday, it received delisted from his bench and was listed earlier than the bench of justice HS Brar. The explanations for delisting weren’t instantly clear.
In the course of the two earlier hearings, the bench of justice Moudgil had come down closely on the Punjab authorities and questioned the police on the delay in registration of an FIR and non-arrest of the accused police personnel.
Because the listening to earlier than the bench of justice Brar resumed on Thursday morning, it requested Punjab whether or not it wished the matter to be handed over to the CBI, Chandigarh Police or the SIT. It additionally requested whether or not events wished an order on benefit or a consensus order. Later, it ordered that Chandigarh Police would probe the case.
