BATHINDA, Feb. 20 -- A judicial probe has indicted five police personnel of the crime investigating agency (CIA)-1 of Bathinda police, including an inspector, for subjecting a villager Bhinder Singh to 'waterboarding', a type of severe torture, to death in custody.

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.

In the fact-finding report filed on Tuesday, judicial magistrate first class (JMIC) Kuldeep Singh stated that inspector and CIA-1 head Navpreet Singh, head constable Rajwinder Singh, constables- Gaganpreet Singh, Harjit Singh, Jaswinder Singh- to face trial for murder, causing disappearance of evidence and other offen...