23 BJP members booked by Punjab police
Amritsar, Nov 21 (UNI) The City police today registered a case against 23 BJP activists under various sections of the IPC including causing obstruction to government servants in the discharge of their official duty.
Those booked included District Bhartiya Yuva Janta Morcha president Sanjay Sharma and Municipal Corporation councillors Sukhbinder Singh Pintoo and Pappu Mahajan, police offiical here said.
They were all booked under sections 186, 353, 189, 225 and 147 of the IPC. The case was registered at the Kotwali police station, but so far no arrest has been made.
The case was registered after the BJP members tried to obstruct the Rajasthan police from arresting a local jeweller, Natin Kumar from a shop in the Guru Bazar area.
The police of the neighbouring state armed with a court order had come to arrest the jeweller in a fraud case.
UNI