Acting on locals' complaints about loud music and indecent behaviour at Maya Bar and Lounge in Wagholi that ATS officer Rajnish Nirmal's wife Anjali owns, cops find event continuing beyond time limit and detain 300 partygoers.
The Pune Rural Police Crime Branch in the wee hours yesterday raided Maya Bar and Lounge in Wagholi that is owned by Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) official Rajnish Nirmal’s wife Anjali, and busted a booze party that was on even after the permitted time. They detained 300 partygoers, including IT professionals, lawyers, students and foreigners.
One hell of a party: Female partygoers step out of Maya Bar and Lounge after the rural police raided the event in the wee hours yesterday. The police arrested four persons and seized liquor worth Rs 10 lakh from the placeu00a0
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Busted: Some of the female partygoers in the main lobby of the lounge after they were detained during the raid in the wee hours yesterday; the police secure the main entrance of Maya Bar and Lounge, owned by ATS officer Rajnish Nirmal’s wife Anjali, to prevent detainees from leaving the premises
Magar said Rajnish Nirmal’s wife Anjali owned the property. “The property was leased out and the rent was fixed at Rs 2.5 lakh a month, and the establishment was only meant to be operated as an eatery. Now, why would anybody give Rs 2.5 lakh a month just for running an eatery? A person like Nirmal should have understood it,” Magar said. “We have registered a case against Anjali, wife of PI Nirmal, and will question her as well.”
Police Inspector Nitin Kumar Gokave of the Local Crime Branch said the raid was conducted after a tip-off. “A couple of Additional Superintendents of Police, two Deputy SPs, five police inspectors of CB and Lonikand Police station and about 100 police personnel raided the place at 1 am when the party was at its peak,” said Gokave. “After reaching at the lounge we discovered that loud music was being played and several people, including girls, were on the dance floor and liquor was being served abundantly. We also spotted some youths in compromising positions.”
Gokave said the moment partygoers and organisers realised that the cops had arrived they started screaming and tried to flee. “Our staff had restricted them to the main hall of the lounge,” said Gokave. “Some of the girls and boys who were totally lost due to over consumption of liquor and did not know what was happening. They started shouting and asked to play the music again.”
Some of the detainees alleged that the officials prohibited them from using the restrooms and told them to stay in the lobby until medical tests were performed on them. An IT professional, one of the detainees, accused the officials of beating the detainees.
Officials said they had spotted a BMW car outside the lounge with a ‘Member of Pune Municipal Corporation’ sticker on its windscreen. An official said that a son of a local politician was involved in the party.u00a0
The other side
ATS official Rajnish Nirmal said though his wife Anjali owned the property, it had been leased out for five years. “I or my wife are not involved in the operation of the restaurant and as it has been leased out we can not interfere in the daily functioning of the lounge,” Nirmal said.
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