350 students detained for organising Friendship Day party in Pune

About 350 students of Pune's Symbiosis Institute were detained by police for organising a "friendship day" party at a farm house at Theur near Pune.

Some of the  students, including boys and girls, had consumed alcohol at the party which was held at the farm house last night without "proper permission", rural police said today.

The detained students were being subjected to a medical test to determine alcohol level in blood under provisions of Bombay Prohibition Act, they added.

Dr Vidya Yeravadekar, director, Symbiosis Institute said that the students had sought permission of the hostel authorities for a "late out" but had failed to return within the time limit prescribed by the institute authorities.

It was not a "rave" party at which narcotic drugs are consumed, police said.

According to Yeravadekar, the girls detained at the farm house, has been released by police.

The students involved are doing their MBA at the Symbiosis Management Institute.

An internal enquiry would be set up to probe the incident, Yeravadekar added.