Mumbai: In what is said to be a first of its kind operation, the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) swooped onto a raid party being held on a cruise ship off the Mumbai coast and detained around a dozen persons, including the son of a leading Bollywood actor.
The action -- which has shocked Mumbaikars and rattled the Bollywood -- started on Saturday afternoon, is still continuing with the process of registering the FIR underway.
NCB Zonal Director Sameer Wankhede, who led the raid along with a team of officials, declined to comment on the developments as the investigations are underway.
Find out below How NCB launched its full-scale raid and busted rave party:
- Days back, officials had received a tip-off on the proposed rave party that was planned aboard a cruise ship bound on a Mumbai-Goa voyage, setting sail from the International Cruise Terminal, Mumbai.
- To avoid detection, the NCB sleuths booked themselves on that cruise as ordinary passengers and they soon found some of their co-passengers consuming drugs.
- Then the NCB launched its full-scale raid, detained at least a dozen passengers, and seized different drugs of various quantities.
- The ship was ordered to turn and sail back to the ICT at Ballard Pier where the detained passengers were offloaded along with their baggage.
- A comprehensive search of their belongings as also the cruise ship is being carried out, while the detainees were sent for a medical examination.
Meanwhile, NCB has summoned the organizers of the rave party at a cruise off the Mumbai coast, asking them to appear before it at 11 pm today. A total of 13 people including 3 women have been taken into custody after a raid at the party yesterday.
With agency inputs
