Bathinda, March 26 -- The five Bathinda police personnel who were indicted in a judicial probe for subjecting a man to 'waterboarding', a type of severe torture, to death in custody have moved the Punjab and Haryana high court for relief.

Waterboarding is a notorious technique in which water is poured into the nostrils and the mouth of a victim, to evoke the sensation of asphyxiation by drowning.

The five police personnel, including an inspector, who were posted in the crime investigation agency (CIA)-1, filed a petition in the HC on March 17, seeking quashing of criminal proceedings initiated by a Bathinda district court.

Justice Sanjeev Berry heard the matter on March 17 and passed a one-line order: "The matter be listed before some ...