Overview

• Additional Sessions Judge J G Dorle ordered on July 31 that five suspects, including Pranjal Khewalkar, remain in judicial custody.
• The prosecution told the court that objectionable chats and videos found on the accused’s phones require detailed investigation.
• During the July 27 raid, Pune police’s crime branch seized cocaine, marijuana, hookah setups and bottles of liquor from the Kharadi studio apartment.
• Prosecutors aim to map the supply chain of the seized contraband to identify its origin and distribution network.
• Defense counsels challenged the probe’s expansion, arguing that the two women from whose purses drugs were recovered are already under judicial remand.