Kolkata: Recently the cops of Park Street Police Station under Kolkata Police raided a late-night DJ party at a five-star hotel in the area. The party was conducted defying all the COVID-19 protocols that bars gathering between 9 pm to 5 pm. However, as the investigating cops are going deeper into the probe, they smell a clandestine sleaze-racket behind the late-night party. Till now, the cops have interrogated about 12 persons in this connection.
Their integration as well as the other clues accumulated by cops clearly indicate that clandestine sleaze racket. “The late-night party seems to be just a façade. It seems there is a bigger story behind the apparently visible story,” said a probe official. Since the beginning, the police had been suspecting that besides liquor, narcotics were also consumed at the party. Initially, the police suspected that only nerve-stimulant drugs of the cocaine family were mainly consumed in that party. But as the investigation process is going deeper there is some evidence regarding the use of sexual stimulation drugs like Ecstasy or Rape-date are coming in the forefront.
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Another point that has been revealed is that the floor of the five-star hotel where the late-night party was going violating COVID-19 protocols had several rooms all booked in the name of different women. All these make the suspicion of a clandestine sleaze racket under the garb of late-night parties deeper. The police are now trying to find out the details of the women, some of whom were foreigners, who booked the rooms as per the official register of the five-star hotel. The police are also trying to find out how long such parties were being conducted during the lockdown period and who all used to attend the parties.
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Of course, police sources said, without the involvement of influential people such parties would not have conducted. According to the Joint Commissioner (crime) of Kolkata Police, MD Sharma, for quite some time the Park Street Police station had been receiving complaints of sounds of the late-night parties from this particular five-star hotel in the locality. Accordingly, he added, the police raided the hotel one night and found the complaints to be true. The party animals also tried to resist the cops and got engaged in clashes with them. Following that the police arrested 37 individuals. Two high-end luxury cars and musical gadgets have also been seized.
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