BATHINDA, July 6 -- A Bathinda court will resume hearing the case of alleged culpable homicide against five police personnel on July 15 after the Punjab and Haryana high court dismissed their petition for a stay on the proceeding on July 1.

Civil judge (junior division), Rasveen Kaur, will conduct the hearing at the next session.

A fact-finding report by then Bathinda judicial magistrate first class (JMIC) Kuldeep Singh filed on February 18 this year had indicted inspector Navpreet Singh, the then head of Bathinda CIA-1, head constable Rajwinder Singh and three constables- Gaganpreet Singh, Harjit Singh and Jaswinder Singh -had allegedly subjected a man to "custodial death".

The district court had ordered the accused cops to stand tria...