Chandigarh, April 9 -- Days after the Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) ordered transfer of the investigation into the assault on Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath by a few policemen in Patiala to Chandigarh Police, superintendent of police (SP) Manjeet Sheoran(AGMUT-cadre IPS, 2015) has been appointed as the inquiry officer.

The single-judge bench of Justice HS Brar had on April 3 transferred the case, expressing dissatisfaction over the delay in FIR registration and lack of action against the accused cops in Punjab. The court had ordered the Chandigarh director general of police (DGP) to entrust the investigation to an IPS officer posted in the Union Territory, belonging to the AGMUT cadre, within a week. The investigating officer has to ...