Chandigarh, May 26 -- Two brothers and their sister were booked for allegedly assaulting a police officer and obstructing him from performing his duty during an anti-encroachment operation near Shastri Market in Sector 22-C on Saturday evening.

According to the FIR registered at the Sector 17 police station, ASI Lakhvir Singh, posted at the Sector-22 police post, along with constables Sandeep Kumar and Sanjay, was on patrolling duty around 5.40 pm.

Following the instructions of senior officers, they began removing illegal street vendors near Shastri Market.

During the operation, the police team found two hearing and speech-impaired men-Rinku, 40, and his brother Raj Kumar, 32, both residents of Mauli Jagran-selling fruits on a cart pla...