India, Feb. 22 -- Dehradun police on Sunday registered a counter FIR in the alleged assault case involving director of elementary education Ajay Naudiyal, a day after a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Raipur was named in the first FIR, even as both sides levelled serious allegations and investigations got underway.

The police registered the counter first information report (FIR) after Raipur BJP MLA Umesh Sharma Kau was named in the initial FIR lodged over the alleged assault on Naudiyal at his office on Saturday.

In the first FIR, Kau and other unidentified persons were booked under sections 121(1) (voluntarily causing hurt or grievous hurt to deter a public servant from duty), 191(2) (rioting), 324(3) (mischief), 351(3) (crimina...