Belgavi: In an interesting development, two BJP nominees — Abhay Patil and Anil Benake — filed nomination papers even before the party announced its third list of candidates, that contained their names, on Friday.

 While the list was released on the party website at around 5 O’ Clock in the evening, the two had filed their nomination papers before 3 p.m., the closing time for filing nomination papers. There were two reasons for this — one, they had obtained the forms on Thursday and that they had to file nomination papers on Friday, that they considered was auspicious.

The nominees said that they were confident of getting party ticket and had received the B forms in Bengaluru on Thursday itself. In Khanapur, the party chose Maratha leader Vithal Halgekar, and not Babu Remani and in Kittur, it chose young leader Mahantesh Doddagoudar.

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Agra, Dec 23: A truck driver dragged two people for about 300 metres in Agra under his vehicle, police on Monday said.

Some locals forced the driver to stop the truck and extricated the men from under the vehicle.

Police arrested the driver and seized the truck.

The two men, both residents of Nunhai in Agra, were going towards Rambagh from Waterworks when they met with an accident around 11 pm Sunday.

The driver, instead of stopping the truck sped up, trapping both of them underneath, police said.

"In the accident, two youths were dragged by a canter driver for about 300 metres. Later, some residents saved the youths by stopping the driver using force," Chhatta Police Station Inspector Pramod Kumar told PTI.

"The youths were sent for treatment at a nearby hospital and are still being treated, but are in stable condition. The youths were from Agra. The canter driver was arrested and the canter seized after the incident," he said.

A video of the incident that surfaced on social media showed the men shouting for help.

The video was purported to have been shot by a person passing by on a two-wheeler.