The Lonavala police busted a party organised in a bungalow on the backwaters of Pawana Dam early on Wednesday morning, and arrested 47 people, including 12 girls for obscenity.
According to Manojkumar Lohiya, superintendent of police, Pune rural police, the revellers were indulging in obscene activity and the girls were found in semi-nude state.
The raid was conducted following a tip-off about a suspected rave party. However, no drugs were found at the party. “We searched the entire bungalow and also frisked the accused, but no traces of drugs were found,” Mr Lohiya said.
All the arrested revellers are developers, estate agents, property brokers and businessmen from Mumbai. The police is waiting for reports of the blood samples of the accused to rule out the drug consumption angle.
The police has seized over 40 empty, half-empty liquor bottles and arrested 12 girls between 20 and 35 years of age and 35 men. Most of them were in inebriated condition.
All the accused have been arrested under Section 294 (obscene acts and songs) of the Indian Penal Code and relevant sections of Bombay Police Act.
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Bihar: 12 kids fall ILL after school meal
ANAND S.T. DAS
PATNA, JULy 31
In what appeared to be an alarming re-run of Bihar’s midday meal tragedy of July 16, 12 students at another primary school in the state fell ill, six of them seriously, after consuming midday meals on Wednesday. Doctors treating the sick students said they were out of danger. While as many as 65 children of the Chamandi Primary School in Arwal district were taken ill minutes after partaking of the midday meal with complains of vomiting and stomach pain, 30 children were discharged after first-aid treatment at the local primary health centre at Kurtha. Of the remaining 24, currently undergoing treatment there, six described as “seriously sick” were rushed to the nearby Jehanabad district hospital. Coming just days after the death of 23 children, this incident created shock in the area and alerted the administration into action. “The sickness appears to have been caused by possible food poisoning. The children were served khichri and chokha as midday meal...” said sub-divisional officer Sateyndra Kumar.