Mumbai, May 21: IPL players Wayne Parnell and Rahul Sharma of Pune Warriors team, who were detained along with 94 others during a raid on a rave party in suburban Juhu, were let off today after collection of their blood and urine samples.
In another development, Vishay Handa, director of city-based Oakwood Premier Hotel, where the rave party was held last night was arrested under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
A police officer said, “All those who were detained last night during the rave party were allowed to go after their blood and urine samples were taken.”
“Among those who were allowed to go include two IPL cricketers - Wayne Parnell and leg-spinner Rahul Sharma (both play for Pune Warriors India),” the officer said.
“The blood and urine samples were taken to Cooper, Bhabha and J J hospitals, to examine if they consumed the drugs,” the officer said.
Police had said last night that two IPL players from the Pune Warriors team, one of them a foreigner, were among the 96 persons who were detained following a raid.
“Approximately 110 grams of cocaine along with MDMA, popularly known as ecstasy, and charas were seized,” Additional Commissioner of Police Vishwas Nagre Patil said on the raid at Hotel Oakwoods in Juhu.
He said 58 boys and 38 girls were taken to Cooper hospital for a blood and urine test.
A case will be registered against those who test positive, he said.
“We will do a proper investigation into who organised the party and who were the drug peddlers,” Patil said.
Pune Warriors player Rahul Sharma said he was at Oakwoods hotel but at a different party.
“I went for a birthday party at Oakwoods hotel in Juhu. I had just reached there but nobody was present. I am right now going to my room.”
