Col Bath assault case: CBI completes inquiry, files chargesheet against Patiala Punjab cops
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in News/ December 25,2025
India’s premier investigation agency, the central bureau of investigation (CBI) has filed a chargesheet in a Mohali court against six Punjab cops in the infamous Patiala’s Colonel Pushpinder Bath assault case.
CBI has filed chargesheet against inspectors Harry Boparai, Ronnie Singh ,Harjinder Dhillon and Surjit Singh under section 109 (Attempt to Murder), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 117 (1) “Voluntarily Causing Grievous Hurt” , 117 (2) (Voluntarily Causing Grievous Hurt-serious injury) , 126 (2) Wrongful Restraint, 190 (every member of an unlawful assembly is guilty of any offense committed in furtherance of the assembly’s common object), 310 (Dacoity), 351 (2) (Criminal Intimidation under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.
The prosecution has pressed grievous hurt and wrongful restraint charges among others against the four Punjab Police officials.
As per available information, the chargesheet indicts inspector Ronnie Singh as the main accused in the case. The attempt to murder charge does not find mention in the chargesheet.
The Patiala Police had earlier registered an FIR against police inspectors Harry Boparai, Ronnie Singh and Harjinder Dhillon , under Sections 109 (attempt to murder), 310, 155(2), 117(2) (related to voluntarily causing hurt), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Later, another inspector was named under Sections 299 and 191 of the BNS.
The alleged incident took place on the intervening night of March 13 and 14 near a roadside eatery close to Government Rajindra Hospital in Patiala, where Colonel Bath and his son had stopped to eat.
According to the family, while they were standing beside their car, a group of police personnel in civilian clothes approached them and asked Colonel Bath to move his vehicle to make space for theirs.
The family further alleged that the situation soon escalated, after which more than a dozen police personnel attacked the colonel and his son with rods and sticks, leaving both of them injured.
Though the FIR was registered against unidentified people, the family members of the army officer have accused Punjab Police personnel of assaulting the father and son. Later the matter escalated as that FIR misses the accused Patiala police personnels and the fight for registration of FIR against the accused was launched by Jaswinder Kaur Bath.
When the police failed the mention the accused cops in the FIR, Mrs Bath launched protest, files case in high court, met Governor, CM, union ministers, high officials. Finally the high court handed the case to Chandigarh police and later shifted the same to CBI in July 2025 as the Special Investigation Team (SIT) entrusted to probe the case is “creating loopholes to give benefit of doubt to accused Police Officers”.
