Dressed for a night out, Afzal Khan and Kiran Mandal stepped inside Bombay 72° East, a Juhu discotheque at 11.30 pm yesterday. Inside: "Drugs were being peddled openly buying, selling and being consumed. We called the cops and they raided the place," said Kiran. The truth can now be told: Kiran and Afzal are police informers and social workers. 

Shame: Revellers were taken to JJ Hospital to get their urine and blood samples to check drug content. pic/sameer markande	Some of the 280 youths who were detained, pending arrest, at a rave party in BOMBAY 72 EAST for allegedly consuming drugs at Juhu 06/10/2008 PIC BY: SAMEER MARKANDE	Some of the 280 youths who were detained, pending arrest, at a rave party in BOMBAY 72 EAST for allegedly consuming drugs at Juhu 06/10/2008 PIC BY: SAMEER MARKANDE
Some of the 280 youths who were detained, pending arrest, at a rave party in BOMBAY 72 EAST Pub for allegedly consuming drugs at Juhu 06/10/2008 PIC BY: SAMEER MARKANDE	Some of the 280 youths who were detained, pending arrest, at a rave party in BOMBAY 72 EAST Pub for allegedly consuming drugs at Juhu 06/10/2008 PIC BY: SAMEER MARKANDE	Some of the 280 youths who were detained, pending arrest, at a rave party in BOMBAY 72 EAST Pub for allegedly consuming drugs at Juhu 06/10/2008 PIC BY: SAMEER MARKANDE

Almost immediately, the Anti-Narcotics cell of the Mumbai police raided the discotheque, partly owned by Bollywood film producer and director Prakash Mehra. Eight drug peddlers, including a woman were arrested and 239 youngsters have been detained (including 35 women).

 The panchnamas were still being conducted as this paper went for print. The detained youngsters will then be taken for a medical check-up to get their blood and urine samples to tested for narcotics content.

Said DCP Vishwas Nangre-Patil, who heads the Anti-Narcotics Cell, "Afzal and Kiran helped us identify the drug peddlers. We found large quantities of cocaine, LSD, charas, Acid and Ecstacy on several people in the disco."

Police sources said the party was held in honour of an Israeli DJ, who calls himself Technodrome, who debuted there last night. Technodrome's real name is allegedly Shay Ben Haiun (26). Coke was allegedly found on him.

The family and friends of the detained youngsters, mostly call centre employees, said the party was organised by a group called Scratch Entertainment. The invitation was sent out to select people through the social networking website Facebook.

Unconfirmed reports say that Shakti Kapoor's son Siddhant was also at the party, apart from sons of other Bollywood celebs. Patil refused to comment and said, "We are at a very preliminary stage in our investigations."