Greater Noida rave party: Rs 15,000 paid to officers to stay off farmhouse?

NOIDA: The “rave” party at Sector 135’s Eco Greens farmhouse has put the role of police under the scanner, with allegations that money was given to them to keep the party “undisturbed”.
A senior police officer involved in the investigation told TOI that the organisers have claimed that they “handed about Rs 15,000 to officers to ensure the party was not disturbed”.
Early Sunday, police arrested 192 people, most of them college students from Delhi and Haryana, during the party at the farmhouse. A UP police constable was among those arrested.
While five organisers were held, police are now facing questions over how more than 50 such parties had taken place at the farmhouse right under its nose. Eco Greens farmhouse comes under the purview of Expessway police station.
Senior officers of Noida police are now looking at fixing the responsibility on the local station house officer (SHO) of Expressway police station. Gautam Budh Nagar SSP Vaibhav Krishna told TOI that they will write to the Election Commission to recommend action against its SHO Hansraj Bhadoriya.
Sources in the police said a similar raid had been carried out on the same farmhouse a month ago but no one was arrested. There were also allegations that police had taken money to hush up the matter. SSP Vaibhav Krishna said the allegations were being probed.
At the party on Sunday, the guests had come in 39 cars and nine bikes. Police seized all the vehicles along with five big hookahs, 26 small ones, 112 full bottles of beer, 30 liquor bottles.
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