Ghaziabad police busted a rave party in a posh hotel near the police lines in Ghaziabad. The police arrested 66 men and six women while two dozen luxury cars and Rs9.80 lakh in cash was recovered from their possession. Acting on a secret information, a police team raided the hotel on Wednesday midnight. The raid continued for several hours.
A police official said that the premises of hotel Parth-Inn at Hapur road near Ghaziabad police lines were raided by a police team. During the raid the police found 66 people involved in betting. Some of them were found in objectionable position too. Six women who were found in an inebriated state were also rounded up. They were taken to the police station for questioning. They revealed that they all were the residents of NCR towns of Faridabad, Noida and Ghaziabad and had come to attend the party. They also admitted that they were frequent visitors of this hotel, the police added.
“The hotel owner, Dharmendra Agrawal, has been arrested. This hotel was serving liquor to the guests despite not having the mandatory bar licence. The guests were seen betting in contravention of the law of the land. The atmosphere was found to be shady and some of them involved in immoral activities. They all have been booked and arrested under the appropriate sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC),” said Ummed Yadav, the Public Relations Officer of Ghaziabad police.