Bengaluru: The anti-narcotics division of Karnataka Police raided a rave party organised at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Bengaluru, said officials on Monday.
The party, involving techies and Telugu actors, was held in the GM Farmhouse in the Singena Agrahara area near Electronics City, till the early hours of Monday.
The police seized 17 MDMA tablets and cocaine from the scene. More than 100 participants, including techies, Telugu film actors, models, and young men and women from Bengaluru and Andhra Pradesh, were at the rave party.
The organiser had flown over 25 people from Andhra Pradesh to Bengaluru for the event. The police found a pass belonging to an Andhra Pradesh MLA in one of the cars parked at the farmhouse, however, the MLA instantly denied that the car belongs to him.
Preliminary investigations revealed that an individual from Hyderabad organised the party under the pretext of a birthday celebration. As the party continued past 2am, the narcotics wing sleuths raided the farmhouse.
The police also found more than 15 luxury cars at the venue and are tracking the identities of the participants.
Additional commissioner of police (crime) Chandragupta said the rave party with loud music was hosted in GR Farmhouse and 15 grams of MDMA and six grams each of cocaine and hydro-ganja were seized. “The raids were carried out at 3am. The drugs were seized from revellers, most of whom were from neighbouring states. Five men were arrested under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act,” he said.
A senior police officer said the two men from Hyderabad, Arun Kumar and Vasu, had hosted the party to celebrate their birthday. “They hosted the bash in Bengaluru because most of their friends and relatives are here. Arrangements for the celebrations were made Saturday and the party was called ‘Sunset to sunrise victory’. We suspect more drugs were supplied in the party, which were destroyed during the raid,” the officer said.
A case has been lodged with the Electronics City police station. More details are yet to emerge regarding the incident.
