An FIR was registered on Thursday against Uttar Pradesh Ranji Trophy team captain Mohammad Kaif after he allegedly roughed up a press photographer who tried to take his picture when he was coming out of a cinema hall in Chandigarh.

The former India cricketer had just watched Wednesday evening's show of Shah Rukh [Images] Khan-starrer Om Shanti Om at Picadilly theatre when the photographer 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.

Media persons then picketed Sector 34 police station, where the cinema hall is situated, and later assembled outside the hotel where Kaif and his UP teammates were putting up, demanding that a case of assault be registered against the cricketer.

When Kaif did not apologise despite media persons 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.