Kundapur: A Volvo bus caring illegal Goan liquor to Mangalore of 21b liters in various sizes of bottles and worth Es.25000 in all, was seized by excise authorities at Shiroor on Dec.24 Tuesday. Two persons in the bus, Prakash Nayak from Goa and Tumkur resident Srinivasa Moorthy were arrested during the seizer of illegal consignment.
For quite some time excise authorities were receiving secret information about illegal transport of liquor from Goa to Mangalore and Nakabandi had been imposed on the rote of illegal bus transportation by authorities to apprehend culprits. On Tuesday the arrest of two carriers was done successfully.
Excise sub-inspector Vinod Kumar, Kundapur division excise inspector H Shanker, Kundapur region’s V Manjunath, staff Raviraj Annigeri, K Shanker, Chandrashekar and driver Sudhakar participated in the operation.