The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Tuesday said it has arrested the founders and directors of an event management company that organised the party on the cruise liner. They were “harbouring drugs” and had invited celebrities to attract maximum customers, the agency said. Later, drugs were distributed among the consumers, it added.

With fresh arrests of the organisers from Namas’cray Experience, a Delhi-based firm, the agency has so far taken into custody a total of 16 people in connection with the drug bust on Cordelia Cruises off Mumbai coast.

NCB sources told mid-day that Section 27A (punishment for financing illicit traffic and harbouring offenders) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act has been slapped against the organisers — Namas’cray Experience’s founder Samir Sehgal, co-founder Bhaskar Arora and directors Manav Singhal and Gopal Jee Anand.