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Judicial magistrate (first class) R B Bhagwat had on Friday allowed the discharge applications of some suspects in connection with the rave party in 2007. The Pune rural police had arrested around 280 youth during an all-night operation at Donje village and exposed an international drug racket. A city court had granted them bail later.
Defence counsels for the accused, Sureshchandra Bhosale, Shrikant Shivade, Milind Pawar, and Prasad Kulkarni had filed the discharge application. Following this, the court also discharged the suspects from Sections 65, 83 and 85 of The Bombay Prohibition Act and Section 14 of Foreigners Act.
According to the order issued by Judicial Magistrate Bhagwat, the accused who had tested positive for narcotic substances in the chemical analysis would not be discharged from the offence punishable under Section 27 of the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985.
On March 4, 2007, the Pune rural police had arrested 287 people, including seven drug suppliers, party organisers and a farm owner, from a mango farm at Donje village on the foothills of Sinhagad Fort. Among those arrested were young men and women working with call centres and IT firms, college students, children of affluent businessmen and airhostesses. The police seized two-and-a-half kg marijuana (ganja), 100 gm hashish (charas), seven bottles of phenylphrine hydrochloride, cigarettes, liquor and vehicles.
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