Patiala, March 25 -- The family members of Colonel Pushpinder Singh and army veterans on Monday lifted their sit-in outside the office of Patiala deputy commissioner after chief minister Bhagwant Mann invited them for a meeting on March 31.

The Colonel and his son Angad were allegedly assaulted by 12 cops over a parking dispute in Patiala. The incident took place on the intervening night of March 13 and 14, when the Colonel and his son were at a roadside eatery near Government Rajindra Hospital Patiala.

The family had sat on a protest seeking the arrest of the accused cops, a CBI probe into the incident and the transfer of Patiala SSP Nanak Singh.

Jasvinder Bath, Colonel's wife, said the decision to lift the protest was taken after an ...