India, July 1 -- Himachal Pradesh panchayati raj minister Anirudh Singh Rana was on Tuesday booked for assaulting a National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) officer, Achal Jindal, during a site inspection where a five-storeyed residential building had collapsed in the Bhattakuffar area of Shimla on Monday.

Dhalli police station house officer (SHO) Virochan Negi said that the first information report was registered against the minister under Sections 132, 121(1), 352, 126(2), and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) after Jindal, who is the manager (technical) at NHAI, Shimla, complained that he had been assaulted on Monday. The sections address the offence of assaulting or using criminal force against a public servant to deter th...