Colonel, his son, brutal by Patial Police in civilian clothes; 3 inspectors among 12 suspended policemen

Twelve police officials, including three inspectors, were suspended and a departmental probe ordered against them, after beating an army officer and his son following an altercation.

Two days after the Patiala police recorded a thread against unidentified men for a fight near Rajindra Hospital, an army officer and his wife assumed the brutality of the police.

Patiala SSP Nanak Singh told The Tribune that 12 policemen were suspended with immediate effect.

“We will probe the problem in detail and justice will be done. We will not save anyone,” he said.

Sources say those suspended are inspectors Harry Boparai, Ronnie Singh and Harjinder Dhillon, in addition to the nine others in the complaint.

Colonel Pushpinder Bath, currently displayed at the New Delhi Army headquarters, claimed to have been assaulted on the night of March 13th.

He, together with his son, is currently following a treatment, because they were attacked by the police “posted in the patia”.

While the police have registered a thread against unidentified persons, the family of the army officer accused the police officers in Punjab of assaulting the father and son. It was found that the police staff was in civilian clothes when the exemption broke out and was on the way to the hospital following a raptors meeting in which a seven -year -old was saved and an accused shot dead.

However, one of the policemen who were accused by the army officer of assaulting them, claimed that his colonel and son attacked them.

“They were inexcuded and they attacked us,” he said.

Police officials say they have registered a thread in the statement of a Dhaba owner and that a probe is activated.

Addressing a press conference in Patiala, Jaswinder Bath, Col Pushpinder Bath’s wife, claimed that her husband, along with their son, arrived at a Dhaba near Rajindra Hospital. She claimed that, while sitting outside the car and had food, the police arrived at the scene and asked the colonel to remove their car, because they had to park their car there.

“When my husband opposed their tongue, one of them struck him. Later, all the police staff threw my husband and son leaving them,” Jaswinder said. “The police play a partisan role, despite the CCTV filming and accused policemen have been identified by us,” she said.

“We look at the matter and take action,” said a high police official.