CBI registers 2 FIRs in Col Bath assault case

The FIRs— one from Col Bath and other from dhaba owner— lodged under various BNS sections also include attempt to murder charges

- Karam Prakash

Eight days after the Punjab and Haryana high court transferred the probe into the alleged assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath and his son by Punjab Police personnel to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the agency registered two separate FIRs in the case on Thursday.

The army colonel and his 2l-year-old son Angad were allegedly assaulted by cops over a parking dispute outside a roadside eatery (dhaba) near Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala on March 13. The army officer, in his complaint, alleged that the cops in civvies asked him to move his car, as they had to park theirs. When the colonel objected to their rude tone, the officers thrashed him and his son.

The FIRs — one from Colonel Bath side and other from the dhaba owner—were lodged under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which also include charges under attempt to murder.

The CBI has re-registered both the FIRs filed by the Civil Lines police station, Patiala, as its own separate cases on the orders of the Punjab and Hary-ana high court earlier this month. The agency has tasked its special crime unit to probe the case, said officials.