Overview
- All seven detainees, including Pranjal Khewalkar, son-in-law of former minister Eknath Khadse, were remanded in Pune Crime Branch custody until July 29
- Investigators seized cocaine, marijuana, liquor and hookah equipment during an early-morning raid on a studio apartment in Kharadi
- Forensic laboratory analyses of the narcotics and medical examinations of the suspects are under way to confirm consumption and trace substance origins
- Police are probing the source and distribution network of the seized drugs to identify suppliers and any organized links
- Eknath Khadse has decried the operation as a politically motivated conspiracy and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders say it served as a warning to government critics