DRUG OVERDOSE AT MUSIC FEST KILLS DELHI GIRL IN GOA

A 23-year-old girl, Meha Bahuguna, last seen partying at the Sunburn festival at Candolim is suspected to have died of a drug overdose . The Delhi girl, employed in the hospitality sector in Bangalore, was brought to a city hospital in a critical condition from the festival . Police sources said that according to friends, Meha had last consumed ‘angel dust’, a hallucinatory drug, at the festival, after which she felt uneasy. “She was immediately taken by her friends to a hospital in Calangute from where she was shifted to another in Panaji in a critical condition. She expired the next day,” the sources said. The girl is said to have had easy access to drugs at the party and police, despite having specific information that narcotics were being sold openly at the venue, had failed to act. Top police officials informed TOI that a report submitted to the DIG on Monday clearly stated that narcotics were available at the festival venue. “The report said that drugs are being sold openly to partygoers through stalls selling clothes put up at the venue. It said that stall owners were indulging in peddling. Based on this report, the DIG had alerted the anti-narcotics cell and asked for its men to be posted at the venue,” said sources. However, ANC personnel claimed they were clueless about any sale of drugs at the festival. Local event partner of the festival Lyndon Alves denied any drugs were sold at the venue and hinted that the girl might have comsumed it elsewhere. “The girl entered the festival venue at 4.30pm and she was taken out at 6.30pm. We hear that she had taken drugs four hours before she was admitted. She has definitely not had drugs at the festival.” He claimed that the girl had walked in sick and within minutes of her arrival at the venue, she had to be taken to an ambulance for first aid. After this, she resumed partying, he added. “We have guards and CCTVs. Everyone entering the party was frisked for drugs. There were also policemen on duty. Despite these precautions if someone does bring in drugs we are helpless,” said Alves.