India, July 10 -- Ahead of a hearing in the Bathinda court on July 15 in a culpable homicide case, the Faridkot police have shifted Jaito station house officer (SHO), inspector Navpreet Singh, to police lines on Wednesday.

A fact-finding report by then Bathinda judicial magistrate first class (JMIC) Kuldeep Singh filed on February 18 this year had indicted Navpreet, the then head of Bathinda CIA-1, and other cops for allegedly subjecting a man to "custodial death".

Within two days of receiving the judicial probe report, the Bathinda police authorities had shifted all five cops to the police lines.

But the cops skipped Bathinda court orders to appear before it six consecutive times.

The case involves the death of Bhinder Singh from Lak...