The arrested included Manish Chandrakant Dhole Patil (38) of Koregaon Park, Mathew Alexander Karkeliya (30) of Konark Puram, Kondhwa, Ares Muttha Mona Hari (37) of Walkeshwar, Mumbai, Rahul Baburao Wanjari (28) of Kondhwa Khurd and Javed Ahmed Khan (24) of Lulla Nagar. Searches were on for nabbing one more person identified as Ramesh Balkrishna Dhole-Patil.

Manish and Ramesh are family members of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MLA Kamal Dhole Patil. They were handling the operations at Kapila Resorts and were the main party organisers, the police said.

Nangare-Patil had planned the action much in the same fashion as that of the rave party raid. As per his orders, police sub-inspector Vasant Babar and constable Suvarna Mandlik, dressed in party wears went to the resort as a couple for participating in the event. The police couple reported their observations to the seniors. At the same time, Paresh Thakur, a citizen, also called the rural police control room to complain about the noisy party.

Soon a team of 50 rural police comprising of Nangare-Patil, inspector Bhausaheb Andhalkar of Local Crime Branch and inspector Ravindra Rasal of Loni Kalbhor police station raided the party around 3 am.

The police held about 150 persons dancing under the influence of liquor on a lawn about 100 meters from the resort. They were released after a detail inquiry in the presence of social activists, Asim Sarode and Harish Deshpande. Musical instruments and illegal liquor stock worth Rs 2.47 lakh were seized.