Mangaluru:  The Kankanady town Police arrested one of the accused in the case of stealing batteries from lorries parked in the vicinity of Vamanjooru.

The arrested is Azharuddin (26), a resident of Vamanjooru. Another accused Arif (24), a resident of Vamanjooru is still on large, the police informed.

The case came to light when the PSI and constables of the Kankanady Crime Branch police were checking vehicles in Jappinamogaru. The lorry batteries and concrete iron sheets were found when a Scorpio car was checked, the police said

The cops seized batteries worth Rs 40,000 and concrete sheets from the Scorpio vehicle, the police informed.

Already a murder case has been registered against Azhar in the Mangaluru rural police station, the police added.

Kanaknady police have registered a case regarding this.

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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.