India, Jan. 16 -- Congress leader Rajeev Gowda has been booked for threatening the Shidlaghatta Municipal Commissioner Amrutha Gowda over the removal of his banner from a busy junction in the town in Karnataka's Chikkaballapura district.

The Shidlaghatta town police booked Rajeev Gowda on a complaint lodged by Amrutha Gowda on Wednesday.

Rajeev Gowda, who had contested the 2023 Assembly polls on the Congress ticket and lost, has been booked on the charges of threatening a public servant and provoking breach of peace, criminal intimidation and criminal force to determine public servant under various sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

In her complaint, the Shidlaghatta City Municipal Council Commissioner said that under the leadership ...