Overview
- Police raided a birthday party at a Kalawad Road hotel late Saturday night and registered an FIR under the Gujarat Prohibition Act against 38 people.
- The FIR names 35 male guests and three hotel staffers after on-site breathalyser tests and the collection of blood samples from 98 people at Rajkot Civil Hospital.
- Officers seized 11 empty and filled 750 ml bottles of Indian Made Foreign Liquor of different brands and reported no other intoxicating substances.
- The party was organised by Chirag Patel and most attendees came from Rajkot and neighbouring Morbi; nearly 30 women were present but police said tests did not show alcohol use by them.
- Authorities are examining the hotel's licence, past records and CCTV as they probe the role of management and consider further legal action within Gujarat's long-standing prohibition framework, with the GIFT City exemption as a rare local exception.