TAXILA: The Wah Cantonment police on Tuesday booked two persons for allegedly assaulting and manhandling a union council chairman who supported Ch Nisar Ali Khan in recently held general elections.

According to FIR registered with the police, the union council chairman nominated six persons in his FIR, alleging that they on the behest of local PTI leaders subjected him to ‘torture’.

Wah Cantonment police have registered a case under sections 341, 506, 148 and 149 PPC and launched a hunt for the nominated accused.