Mumbai: Two MBA students arrested in connection with the suspected drug overdose case at a music concert in Goregaon in April, which left two of their batchmates dead, told fellow students over a WhatsApp group that “pills” would be available at the concert, the chargesheet has revealed. A 3,500-page-long chargesheet was filed before a magistrate court at Borivali on Thursday, even as police arrested one more person in the matter.Nitesh Khemlani became the 14th individual to be arrested in the case. He is related to the prime accused, Mahesh Khemlani, who has been accused of supplying the drugs, along with another key accused, Ayush Sahitya.The chargesheet has been filed against 12 of the 14 accused persons. Those named in the chargesheet include Mahesh, Sahitya, three others accused of delivering drugs — Anand Patel, Shubh Agarwal and Vineet Gerelani — besides two MBA students, the event organiser, a security guard at the venue, two employees of the venue management company and Khemlani’s partner, Jiya Jacob.The police have stated in the chargesheet that the drugs were sent from Germany via courier by Khemlani’s friend. Police also said that despite being alerted by bouncers at the venue that drugs were being supplied and consumed, the organisers took no action. Police have alleged that the organisers and the drug suppliers connived to facilitate the supply of narcotic substances for financial gain.Investigators have banked on monetary transactions and WhatsApp chat conversations to establish a link between different accused persons.The chargesheet contains statements of 110 witnesses, including other MBA students who attended the event.Nitesh and Deepak Hemwani, who was held on June 29, have not been named in the chargesheet. Hemwani is accused of receiving the drug parcel at his residence.Advocates Surendra Landge and Azad Gupta, who earlier represented Patel, said they are yet to receive a copy of the chargesheet.The incident dates back to April 11, when three MBA students — part of a larger group of students from the same college — popped Ecstasy pills while attending a techno music concert at an exhibition ground in Goregaon East. They fell ill and two of them — a 28-year-old male and a 24-year-old female — died the next day. The third student — a 25-year-old female — survived.In her statement, the survivor said that she and her friends reached the music concert at 9.30 pm. She popped a yellow-coloured pill with water that one of her classmates, Raunak, gave her. Around midnight, her 24-year-old friend, who later died, popped a similar pill. “We were dancing together and my friend seemed OK. I had taken the same pill during another event in Oct last year,” she said, adding that she did not remember what happened thereafter at the music concert and woke up directly in hospital.
