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Mumbai, June 27 (IANS) The Maharashtra government Monday suspended an anti-narcotics cell (ANC) inspector arrested during a raid on a rave party in Raigad district a day earlier, an official said.

Confirming the development to IANS, a home department official said ANC inspector Anil Jadhav, who was caught during the raid on a resort where the party was organised, was arrested early Monday and suspended, pending an inquiry.

Jadhav and four more people have been arrested in connection with the party. They are: Snehjit Sajalkar, Kishankumar Sujankumar, resort manager Rahul Khanna and Jadhav’s aide Sunil Ghule.

Police are on the lookout for Vikas alias Vicky Shah, a co-ordinator from a private event management company which organised the party.

Jadhav was among the nearly 300 people detained after the raid on Mount View Club and Resort in Khalapur, a village in the adjoining Raigad district late Sunday.

Police seized nearly two kg Ganja, 57 gm charas, small quantities of cocaine, tablets and powders and Rs.308,000 in cash.

The detained youngsters, mostly from Mumbai and Pune, were found to be partaking different types of intoxicating drugs in powder, tablet and liquid form, even as liquor flowed freely, police said.

As the police team raided the venue, many of the dazed youths attempted to escape or hide, and some were found behind trees and under tables, an official from Khalapur police station said.

By early Monday morning, police detained 231 boys and 59 girls and sent them for a medical check-up at the Khalapur civil hospital before allowing them to go.

“Further action will be initiated against them after the medical reports of the participants in the party are received this week,” the official told IANS.

Police declined to reveal the names of the participants.

The police action started on a day which is observed as the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.

Khalapur, near Karjat on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway, is the place where the now-banned dance bars were launched nearly four decades ago. These bars, which later became popular in Mumbai, were forced to shut down by the government six years ago.