India, May 13 -- The Nainital Police registered cross FIRs on Monday after a dispute escalated between Congress party and a trader over possession of a building, housing the Congress office, on Ranikhet Road in Ramnagar town.

Police resorted to baton charge on Monday evening to remove the Congress workers and leaders sitting outside the property. The Congress claimed some of their workers sustained injuries in the lathicharge.

On complaint of trader Neeraj Aggarwal, police booked former MLA and Congress leader Ranjeet Singh Rawat and seven others under sections 190 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 191 (2) (rioting), 191 (3) (Rioting- Being armed with deadly weapon), 131 (Pu...