Almost two months after former Indian Premiere league (IPl) chairman Chirayu Amin and other who's who of Vadodara's arrest for consuming liquor illegally in dry Gujarat, the State police on Saturday arrested 29 students of Ahmedabad-based high-profile National Institute of Design (NID) for consuming liquor and arrange booze party illegally under Gujarat Prohibition Act.
The party started on Friday night and continued till wee hours on Saturday at a private apartment situated in Paladi area of Ahmedabad in the proximity of sprawling NID campus. However, the cops only raided after a tip-off from police control room (100 number).
"We raided Pushkar Flats near the NID campus and arrested the students, including 14 women, while having the booze party. They have been booked under the prohibition law," said a police inspector, adding that some residents in the same flat complaint in the police control room about loud music inside the flat where party was going on.
The Ahmedabad Police Commissioner had informed the NID Director over phone recently that the police had information of students consuming liquor on the campus, sources said.