India, July 26 -- Eight days after the Punjab and Haryana high court transferred the probe into the alleged assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath and his son by Punjab Police personnel to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the agency on Thursday registered two separate FIRs in the case.

The army colonel and his 21-year-old son Angad were allegedly assaulted by cops over a parking dispute outside a roadside eatery (dhaba) near Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala on March 13. The army officer, in his complaint, alleged that the cops in civvies asked him to move his car, as they had to park theirs. When the colonel objected to their rude tone, the officers thrashed him and his son.

The FIRs - one from Colonel Bath side and o...