Overview
- Officers surrounded and entered a Tulapur bungalow and, in the early hours of Sunday, June 7, found 156 people at an unauthorised late-night event including three attendees below the legal drinking age of 21.
- Police seized about three grams of ganja, three hookah pots with 10 banned flavoured products and a liquor stock valued at roughly ₹9.22 lakh, with total seized property estimated at about ₹85 lakh.
- Investigators have identified principal organisers — Aiman Sheikh (Blaze Entertainment) and Yash Chaudhary (Star Light Entertainment) — and are questioning them over permissions, venue use and supply chains.
- Lonikand police have processed attendees, sent a group for medical and forensic testing for drug use and have booked about 78 people under a mix of excise, NDPS, juvenile and public-order provisions.
- The operation follows stepped-up enforcement on illegal liquor and late-night parties after recent poisoning cases, and police say their probe will examine the venue owner, liquor suppliers and any wider links.