More than a hundred people, including some foreigners, were arrested by the Ramanagaram police early this morning.

Police said they had seized liquor and musical instruments, but did not mention hard drugs. It is not clear if it was a "rave party", although informally, police and the media have been describing it as one. A rave is described as an all-nite party with dancing and electronically synthesised music, but police say participants at such parties do psychedelic drugs and go into a delirium.