Bhim Army founder, 27 others booked for rioting, assaulting public servants'

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad has been booked on charges of assaulting public servants and defying their orders besides rioting along with his supporters in their bid to take out a political rally here, police said Wednesday.

Azad was arrested Tuesday at Deoband in Saharanpur but had to be admitted in a hospital in Meerut after he was taken ill, police said.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Wednesday met Azad at the hospital,