Jalandhar, March 19 -- The Jalandhar police on Wednesday booked 24 Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders, including former MP Sushil Kumar Rinku, former MLAs Sheetal Angural and Rajinder Beri, for allegedly obstructing public servants on duty during the demolition of an 'illegal' portion of a hotel.

The Jalandhar MC on Tuesday evening demolished a portion of the hotel owned by Chopra Hotels Private Limited, an entity associated with the Punjab Kesari group. While Rinku and Angural belong to the BJP, Beri is from Congress.

The FIR has been registered under Sections 132 (assaulting or using criminal force against a public servant to deter them from their duty), 221 (voluntarily obstructs a public servant from performing their ...