Patiala/Chandigarh, March 22 -- After widespread outcry, Punjab Police on Friday registered a fresh FIR based on the statement of an army colonel, who accused 12 police officials of thrashing him and his son over a parking dispute in Patiala.

A three-member high-level special investigation team (SIT) has also been set up to conduct probe in a "fair and expeditious manner." This comes a day after Colonel's Pushpinder Singh Bath's wife Jasvinder Kaur met Punjab governor Gulab Chand Kataria, who spoke to the state DGP and told him that it was the family's right for the FIR to be registered based on the army officer's statement.

Jasvinder broke down while addressing a press conference in Chandigarh on Friday, demanding justice for her husba...