A candlelight vigil for NRI student Anmol Sarna, who died mysteriously at a party last week
Three more arrests were made today in the case of NRI student Anmol Sarna, who died mysteriously last Friday after a farewell party for him, where a large quantity of drugs was consumed. The police today arrested a friend and two suspected drug dealers, all of them college students.
Here are the latest updates
A Delhi court today rejected bail for four friends who partied with Anmol and had been arrested on charges of consuming banned drugs. Two of them, along with Anmol, had driven to Noida near Delhi to buy drugs before they came to the home of a third friend, Pranil, at Kalkaji's South Park apartments.
The police say the friends of the 21-year-old NRI are not above suspicion. If evidence is found against them, they could be booked for murder.
One of the students arrested today allegedly provided the lethal drugs that Anmol and his friends took at the party. They took the drugs at around 9 pm, with Pranil's parents sleeping right next door.
By all accounts, Anmol had suffered a bad trip due to the drugs and acted deliriously in the last hours of his life. He apparently turned violent, smashed an LCD TV and damaged furniture before Pranil's parents reportedly asked all of them to leave.
Anmol's parents had blamed his friends for his death, calling it "cold-blooded murder". His mother Shobha fainted in a Delhi court hearing the case on Thursday.
Police say there were injuries on Anmol's private parts and bloodstains on his face. An autopsy report had said he died of blood-loss and blows to his head with a blunt object.
Two security guards at South Park Apartments have been arrested for assaulting Anmol when he was running around the complex at night, high on drugs, creating a ruckus and dragging himself across the ground.
Ajit Sahi, a Tehelka journalist who stays at the same apartment complex and witnessed his antics that night says he is willing to vouch for the fact that Anmol had no head wounds when he was taken in a police car to the hospital, and the guards did not kill him.
Anmol had moved to Delhi to his grandmother's house in December. He had finished high school in the US and was to join a hospitality institute in California next month. The family had moved back to India after 27 years in the US.
The police say they are investigating the network of college students involved in supplying and buying banned drugs, exposed by this case.
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