Congress seeks independent probe into "assault" on Colonel by Punjab police personnel

New Delhi [India], March 22 (ANI): The Congress Saturday demanded a high-level independent probe into the "brutal manhandling" and "assault" on a serving Army Colonel by Punjab Police cops in Patiala on March 13.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC office here, the Chairman of the AICC Ex-Servicemen Department Col Rohit Chaudhary and AICC secretary & co-in-charge Punjab Alok Sharma demanded that "all the guilty cops should be dismissed and put behind bars".
They said the Colonel's son was also targeted.
The Congress leaders said that the "beating up" of an Army Colonel showed the deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab under the Aam Aadmi Party government.
They accused Aam Aadmi Party of "trying to suppress this matter" and alleged that "no FIR was registered for three-four days".
"The owner of the Dhaba where this incident took place was pressured to lodge an FIR against unknown people, so that the real culprits could be saved. The administration tried everything possible to save the policemen," Sharma said.
He alleged that the drug menace has "spread" across the state.
Congress leaders demanded that the Patiala SSP should also be "named" in the FIR in the case of attack on the Colonel in Patiala as "he was trying to protect the guilty cops".
"All the guilty cops including the SSP should be arrested and dismissed," Sharma said.
The Congress leaders also demanded that senior army officers should be "included" in the Special Investigation Team (SIT).
Sharma said the probe should be headed by a former judge and not by police personnel. (ANI)