Blood samples of rave party revellers sent to lab: Top cop

Bengaluru, NT Bureau: The blood samples of the guests of a rave party busted at a farmhouse in the city have been collected and sent to laboratory for testing, Bengaluru Police Commissioner B Dayananda said on Tuesday.

"Over 100 people attended the party and of them, five have been arrested," he said. Various types of drugs were also seized by the antinarcotics wing of the Central Crime Branch (CCB), he said, adding several attendees were from outside Karnataka.

The CCB sleuths raided the rave party hosted in the name of "Vasu's Birthday" and subtitled "Sunset to Sunrise" and seized cocaine, 'ecstasy' and MDMA pills along with other narcotic substances.

Several people from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana are believed to have attended the party that allegedly continued till early hours of Monday with loud DJ music prompting the police to conduct a raid.

Briefing reporters, Dayananda said, "On the night of May 19, Bengaluru CCB, based on specific information, raided a farmhouse at Electronic City. Around 100 people were at the event where drugs and narcotic substances were found," the city top cop said.

"For further probe, the blood samples of attendees have been collected. We are awaiting the results. Most of them were from outside