New Delhi, March 22 -- The Congress Saturday demanded a high-level independent probe into the "brutal manhandling" and "assault" on a serving Army Colonel by Punjab Police cops in Patiala on March 13.

Addressing a press conference at the AICC office here, the Chairman of the AICC Ex-Servicemen Department Col Rohit Chaudhary and AICC secretary & co-in-charge Punjab Alok Sharma demanded that "all the guilty cops should be dismissed and put behind bars".

They said the Colonel's son was also targeted.

The Congress leaders said that the "beating up" of an Army Colonel showed the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab under the Aam Aadmi Party government.

They accused Aam Aadmi Party of "trying to suppress this matter" and alleged ...