Pune:
It may have seemed like a good idea at the time, but the students who organized a farmhouse party to commemorate Friendship Day aren't left with great memories.
At 11 pm on Sunday night, a group of policemen dropped in - and left with 350 students of Pune's famous Symbiosis College. The students had broken several rules - 90 of them failed sobriety tests; all of them had violated the city's 10.30 pm curefew.
The police says they were summoned to the farmhouse after complaints of loud music. They found alcohol - mainly beer and wine - doing the rounds. The organizers had not applied for a liquor license for the party.
There was a cover charge of Rs 350 per head. The party was organized by a group of students who wanted to avoid drunk driving and had arranged for five buses to pick up and drop the students to their hostel.
But word of the party had spread, and the turnout was larger than expected. So the police invited a judge to conduct a hearing at the farmhouse. After a few hours, the girls were released with a warning. The male students, however, have to post bail.
The college has given the students a big fat F for their party. "We have formed a committee under the Vice Chancellor. He will submit a report why the students did not return after 12.30 and why was liquor served in the party. We will then take action accordingly," said Vidya Yerawdekar, Director, Symbiosis University.
Students on campus say the college is over-reacting. "It's a party that was arranged by the students so college has no role in this," says one young girl.
Every party, they seem to suggest, has a pooper.