PANAJI
The Sessions Court in Bhachau, Gujarat will on Monday hear the anticipatory bail of Canacona local Ligorio D’Souza, who is charged with alleged smuggling of links to the dry State.
Previously charged by local authorities for operating an illegal liquor unit in Canacona back in 2010, D’Souza has been on the run in the present case. The Gujarat police’s couple of search operations in Goa have been futile amidst which the Canacona man applied for anticipatory bail.
A Gujarat police officer told The Goan that the hearing initially scheduled for Saturday was postponed to Monday as more suspects were arrested on Friday.
“Four arrests have been made in connection with this case, while the fifth suspect’s application for anticipatory bail is pending before the Bhachau Court,” he revealed.
D’Souza is wanted in connection with a liquor case registered in Gujarat in 2021 and although there is no one from Goa named in the FIR registered with Gujarat police, one of the suspects in Gujarat named “one Legaro, a liquor trader from Goa,” from whom the former allegedly purchased the liquor consignment.
