An FIR was registered, on Thursday, against Uttar Pradesh Ranji cricket team captain Mohammad Kaif for allegedly roughing up a press photographer who tried to take his picture when he was coming out of a cinema hall here.

The former Indian cricketer had just watched the evening show of “Om Shanti Om” at Picadilly theatre on Wednesday night when the lenseman of a Hindi daily tried to click him.

An angry Kaif allegedly manhandled the photographer and also got into a scuffle with journalists who tried to intervene, eyewitnesses and journalists at the spot said. The mediapersons then picketed Sector 34 police station where the cinema hall is situated and later assembled outside the hotel where Kaif and his teammates were putting up, demanding that a case of assault be registered against the cricketer.

The test squad is leading the UP Ranji team and staying at a local hotel. When Kaif did not apologise despite mediapersons waiting outside his hotel for couple of hours, they then marched to the official residence of Chandigarh’s Home Secretary Krishan Mohan, demanding an FIR be registered against the cricketer.

They also demanded that another cricket player Praveen Kumar, who had also allegedly misbehaved with some mediapersons outside the hotel where the UP team was putting up.