Indore, Apr 14 (PTI) A case has been registered against two persons for allegedly misbehaving and threatening a medical team, which had come to administer COVID-19 vaccine to residents of a village in Madhya Pradesh's Indore district, police said on Wednesday.

A vaccination drive was underway at Sagalkhali village, about 45 km from Indore city, on Tuesday, when two brothers reached the place and started instigating people against taking a jab, an official from Manpur police station said.

The accused Ajay and Amit Chensingh also abused the medical team, threatened them and drove them away, he said.

Based on a complaint, a case was registered under section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the IPC against the absconding accused, the official added.

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