from various sources
Pune, Mar 6: The Pune Police claim they have evidence that drug parties like this particular one are organized using social networking sites like Orkut and isratrance.com.
Besides Pune, the Internet was also venue of the party run-up and feedback on sites like isratrance.
isratrance.com's feedback pages are a timeline to the whole story from the invitations to the police bust.
On February 27, an Internet user, who went by the name of psy_demon set the ball rolling by posting an invite to the March 3, Holi party online.
Soon, others using names such as Urban Hippie, doctor exceed, LSD 25 and tripknot, logged on and the online party started.
Users began posting their reviews and pictures and more invitations for other drug dos began to pour in till a user named Indiandawg posted the bad news that the Pune party had been busted by the police and all the invitees arrested.
Meanwhile, the parents of those arrested are in a state of shock and denial.
“Our children don't even know what drugs are. Spending one night in jail is punishment enough,” said one of the guardians.
But the reality is sharp and stark. In January, Rs 2 crore worth of heroin was seized in Pune and a month before that, it was 28 gunny bags of ganja.
So for Pune, which for long has been known as a safe city and a pensioners' paradise, this incident comes as a rude shock and is an indication of how intensely the drug net has captured the youth of the city.
But that's not the end of the task, because the anonymity of the Internet for sending invitations and organizing rave parties means more trouble for the police.
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