Summary:
Soon after the arrest, a mob of 100 persons allegedly waylaid the vehicle carrying the excise officials and attacked them. KARWAR: A large number of police personnel and excise officials on Friday searched houses at Gabitawada area of Majali village in Karwar taluk. The search operation was carried out to arrest the culprits who had attacked some excise officials on Monday.Hundreds of police personnel were part of the operation which, however, yielded no result. Excise officials too had registered a separate case against three persons. But police and excise officials could not find any illegal liquor stocked up in these houses during the search.Gabitawada in Majali abutting the beach is infamous for smuggling of liquor from Goa..