A Friendship Day party at a farmhouse in temple village Theur landed 489 youths, mostly students of Symbiosis Institute of Management Studies (SIMS), Khadki, in the police net on Sunday night. The party started around 10 pm but Pune rural police landed at the sprawling Sindhu bungalow on the farmhouse around 11 pm and played party pooper.

The allegation against 254 boys and 235 girls, mostly MBA students is they organized a late-night party and consumed alcohol without permission. Deputy Superintendent of Police (Rural) Ravindra Pardeshi said most of them were SIMS students. "The party was held without permission. We found a cache of liquor from the spot. No narcotic substance was found," he said. Cops said 300 liquor bottles were seized.

Vidya Yerawadekar, principal director of Symbiosis International University (SIU) said the students had permission for a late night out. "There are around 600 students in the hostel studying MBA and are above 18 years. They need some break since the course is rigorous. We allow them to stay out till 12.30 am thrice a month," she said.

"On Sunday, they had officially taken permission from the director to go for a party. Since they did not return after 12.30 am, the director called a few students and came to know about the incident," said Yerawadekar who said the varsity paid the bail amount. "All were staying at the hostel and thus their parents were not here. On the request of parents, and as many students did not have enough money, SIU paid the amount. It will be recovered from them," she said.

One student said, "We are not criminals. We had not done any mischief. It was just a party. We had planned to wind up by 12 pm."

Police arrested 88 boys under sections of the Bombay Police Act and the Bombay Prohibition Act, eight of them for organizing the party without permission. No girl was arrested.

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