Chandigarh, April 4 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court on Thursday transferred the investigation into the recent assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath, allegedly by 12 Punjab Police personnel in Patiala, to Chandigarh Police.

The high court bench of justice HS Brar ordered that the Chandigarh director general of police (DGP) would entrust the probe to an IPS officer, posted in UT and belonging to the AGMUT cadre, within a week. The officer would complete the probe in four months and submit report to the court concerned, it added.

In his petition filed on March 25, Colonel Bath had stated that he and his son were brutally attacked by four inspector-rank officers of Punjab Police and their armed subordinates, who snatched his identit...