India, March 26 -- Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath, who has accused 12 Punjab Police personnel of assaulting him and his son over a parking dispute outside a dhaba in Patiala on the intervening night of March 13 and 14, has refused to appear before the Punjab government's special investigation team (SIT) probing the incident.

Colonel Bath, who is recuperating from an elbow fracture at his house in Patiala after he was discharged from Command Hospital, Chandimandir, has informed the SIT that a petition has already been instituted on his behalf under Section 528 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, before the Punjab and Haryana high court, wherein he has requested that the probe be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigat...