India, May 3 -- In a major relief to the Karnal Congress candidate Divyanshu Budhiraja, a Panchkula court on Friday granted him bail in connection with a 2018 property defacement case in which he had been declared a proclaimed offender.

Budhiraja, 31, who is the president of the Haryana Youth Congress and is contesting against former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar of the BJP in the May 25 election, had surrendered before the court minutes before he was let off on bail.

The court of judicial magistrate Arunima Chauhan granted him bail after he furnished a bail bond of Rs.40,000 and a surety of the like amount.

Budhiraja, who was booked for defacement of property in 2018 after he had put up posters regarding unemployment in t...