21-07-2025
13 men held for consuming liquor in Gujarat during birthday party, 26 women served notice
The police arrested 13 men for allegedly consuming liquor at a birthday party near Gujarat's Sanand in Ahmedabad district on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday. They also issued a notice to 26 women who tested positive for alcohol but released them, citing night-time arrest regulations.
Pratik Subkaran Sanghi (38), who allegedly hosted the party at a banquet hall of Glade One Golf Club, was among those arrested. A joint team from Sanand, Aslali, Changodar and Bopal police stations, along with the Local Crime Branch (LCB), conducted the raid around 12:15 am on Monday after receiving a tip-off. The police said Sanghi is a director of several companies.
Police officers said they found around 90 people at the venue. After conducting breathalyzer tests, they detained 39 of them and sent their blood samples for tests.
'Since we couldn't arrest the women at night as per rules, we served them a notice and let them go. We placed the men under arrest,' said Superintendent of Police (Rural Ahmedabad) Om Prakash Jat.
Jat added, 'We're investigating where the liquor came from, the role of the accused, and whether the club authorities were involved. We also seized hookahs from the site and sent them to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) to check for narcotics.'
The police seized 11 bottles of Indian-made foreign liquor and mobile phones worth Rs 1.6 lakh.
Besides Sanghi, the arrested men include Ritesh Rajan Vazirani (38), Rushabh Vimal Duggal (28), Viraj Yagnesh Vitthalani (36), Ninad Kamlesh Parikh (43), Amit Suresh Bajaj (41), Raj Balkrushna Agrawal (37), Nikhil Surendra Bajaj (38), Dushyant Kishor Goswami (36), Varun Manoj Jain (36), Amit Shiv Jogiya (36), Priyam Bimal Parikh (37), and Sajal Sanjeevkumar Agrawal (35).
