The excise staff of the Majali checkpost, Karnataka, seen with the illegal consignment and the driver of the vehicle. The truck had cleared the Polem checkpost
Poinguinim: Illegal liquor worth Rs 9 lakh was seized from an insulated fish truck headed from Goa to Andhra Pradesh early Tuesday morning at the Majali checkpost.
Interestingly, the truck went scot free at the Polem checkpost in Canacona which is barely 100m away from the Majali checkpost.
Sensing something amiss, staff at Majali, led by sub Inspector R N Naik, stopped the truck. Their search revealed liquor hidden among the fish crates. They seized about 45 crates of beer and whiskey of different brands, as well as some Indian made foreign liquor.
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PANAJI: Goa International Airport has crossed the century mark for relief flights, while notching up a half-century for Vande Bharat flights since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. The airport, which has emerged as one of busiest terminals in the west zone, has come full circle from flights being grounded to becoming a hub for the Covid-19vaccine, director Gagan Malik said.
While the terminal catered to 5.8 lakh arriving passengers in January, the airport has handled 103 relief flights, 72 repatriation flights and 54 VandeBharat flights. Relief flights are those that help foreigners and non-resident Indians return to foreign nations in the absence of scheduled international flights. Vande Bharat and repatriation flights are those that have been organised to bring back Goans and Indians stranded abroad because of the pandemic and subsequent lockdowns.
Panaji: On Sunday, a 50-year-old resident of Varkhand, Pernem, was allegedly killed in a wild boar attack in a forest area.
Pernem PI Jivba Dalvi said Ankush Parab was brought dead on Sunday morning to Redkar Hospital in Dhargal. After receiving the information, police arrived at the hospital for investigations.
Dalvi said that Parab and his brother had gone into a forest area in Varkhand around 9am to graze their cattle. “Suddenly, he was attacked by a wild boar. This caused a deep cut and bleeding injuries to his right leg hamstring and left hand bicep region. After the postmortem was conducted, his body was handed over to his relatives,” Dalvi said.