Mangaluru: Police arrest truck driver of Kadri road accident which killed school teacher on Sunday
Mangaluru: Local police on Monday arrested the truck driver who rammed into an auto-rickshaw on Sunday evening in which a school teacher Shailaja Rao (55) died on the spot while auto driver Vinod had sustained severe injuries.
The accused driver has been identified as Siddalinga Patil (29), a resident of Shirole village in Gadag District.
Siddalinga has been sentenced to 14-day judicial custody.
On Sunday evening, Siddalinga had rammed his truck to an auto-rickshaw in an attempt to avoid collision with another auto in Kadri. The incident had killed Shailaja Rao, a Kendriya Vidlaya Teacher in Panambur who was travelling in auto. Auto driver Vinod had sustained critical injuries in the accident.
A case in this regard had been registered at Mangaluru East Police Station after the accident. Police arrested Siddalinga on Monday.
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Congress names candidates for 8 Haryana LS seats, fields Kumari Selja, Deepender Hooda
Chandigarh (PTI): The Congress on Thursday announced candidates for eight of the nine Lok Sabha seats it is contesting in Haryana, fielding former Union minister Kumari Selja, Rajya Sabha MP Deepender Hooda and youth leader Divyanshu Budhiraja, besides two sitting MLAs.
The party has also fielded former MP Jai Prakash and leaders Satpal Brahmachari and Mahendra Pratap, according to the list released late Thursday evening.
The Congress is contesting nine of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana. It has not yet announced its candidate for the Gurugram constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party, a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, will contest the Kurukshetra seat.
Congress general secretary and former Union minister Selja will contest from the Sirsa (reserved) seat and sitting MLAs Varun Choudhary and Rao Dan Singh from the Ambala (reserved) and the Bhiwani-Mahendragarh Lok Sabha seats, respectively.
Deepender Hooda, son of former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will enter the fray from Rohtak. He has represented the Rohtak parliamentary constituency three times in the past.
Jai Prakash has been fielded from Hisar, the Congress' Haryana youth wing president Divanshu Budhiraja from Karnal, Satpal Brahmachari from Sonipat and Mahendra Pratap from Faridabad.
