Police have raided a rave party being held in a resort on the Udaipur-Ahmedabad highway in Rajasthan. Eighty-two people including 16 women were arrested in Sunday’s raid.
In the raid of rave party most of the arrested guys are Gujarati businessmen who were special invitees in the party. As per police sources the women were from Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bhopal and Agra. Arrested guys have been booked under PITA (Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act) and were produced before a magistrate on Monday.
It is perhaps the first case in Rajasthan where such a big sex racket has been busted and all arrested people booked under prostitution charges. A team of more than 25 cops and officers conducted the raid which went on throughout the night and the accused were brought to the police station early on Monday.
“We had a tip-off about the rave party at Udai Palace Hotel and Resorts on the Udaipur-Ahmedabad Highway,” said Ajaypal Lamba, SP, Udaipur. The SP constituted a special team under the supervision of DSP Ranu Sharma.
Two constables were sent as bogus customers who paid entrance fees of Rs 4,000 each. On receiving their signal, the police team scaled the boundary wall of the resort and conducted a raid to find several scantily clad girls dancing in the party while many guests were found inside rooms in compromising positions.
The guests were caught unawares and some bolted their doors from inside to escape the raid. But the cops forcibly opened the rooms and arrested the occupants. Most of the arrested were businessmen from Surat, Valsad and Ahmedabad in Gujarat; Kishangarh and Dungarpur in Rajasthan.
The entry fees for the party had two categories. One pegged at Rs 6,000 while other at Rs 4,000 per person, both included food. But guests were required to pay an extra amount for “entertainment”.
“It is perhaps the first time in the state where so many people have been booked under PITA charges in a raid, generally sections like 151 of the IPC is charged on persons other than the main accused,” he added.
The hotel owner, Pawan Bansal, managed to escape but his wife has been arrested with cash more than 1 lakh rupees. Police has also found a large stock of liquor to be served in the party.
