Chandigarh, March 25 -- The Punjab and Haryana high court would take up a plea by Colonel Pushpinder Singh Bath seeking transfer of probe in the FIR registered by Patiala police in the assault case to Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

The petition seeks a stay in the probe by the Punjab Police and examining the role of senior police officers in the delay in the registration of FIR and will be taken up by the bench of justice Sandeep Moudgil on Tuesday.

Col Bath and his son were allegedly assaulted by Punjab Police cops on the intervening night of March 13 and 14, when they were at a roadside eatery near Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala.

The family claimed that when the two were standing outside their car and having food, so...