Ahmedabad liquor party: 6 students under ICCR fellowship likely to face disciplinary action

The police are yet to contact the embassies of the foreign nationals and the universities where they are currently studying

By: Express News Service

Ahmedabad | October 27, 2025 04:26 AM IST

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Police Inspector B T Gohil told The Indian Express that the other 15 accused, including 12 foreign nationals and three Indians, had not been granted bail by the court which “kept it for hearing"

Even as the zonal office of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations (ICCR) hasn’t received documents pertaining to the arrest of 15 students from a ‘liquor party’ in Ahmedabad on Friday night, officials said that six of them, who are under ICCR fellowship, are likely to face disciplinary action.

Three of these six students are enrolled in Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and others in Gujarat University (GU).
ICCR Gujarat sub zonal officer Subhash Singh told The Indian Express, “We haven’t received the FIR copy, but we are in touch with the police and universities concerned. So far, we have been informed that around six students are under the ICCR fellowship. Certainly, disciplinary action against these six will be taken once the institutes reopen on Monday after Diwali vacations.”

Gujarat Technological University (GTU) Registrar K N Kher told The Indian Express the university authorities were in talks with the ICCR zonal office and that action will be taken based on their directions.

On Sunday, the Bopal police produced the 20 arrested accused in a local court, which granted two days police remand of five of them, including the party organisers, two bootleggers and a hookah supplier – one of them is a Kenyan national and the other four are Indians.

Police Inspector B T Gohil told The Indian Express that the other 15 accused, including 12 foreign nationals and three Indians, had not been granted bail by the court which “kept it for hearing”. These 15 accused had been sent to Sabarmati Central Prison with a further court hearing set for Monday.

The police are yet to contact the embassies of the foreign nationals and the universities where they are currently studying.
Asked whether any of the foreign nationals had liquor permits, police said that none of them had produced such a document. Even if they did possess a liquor permit, it would not be applicable in this case as the liquor had been procured through a bootlegger and not through a permit shop,” a police officer said.

Fifteen students were among 20 arrested from the “liquor party” held in Ahmedabad’s outskirts Friday night. According to police, at least four of their personnel managed to “sneak” into the liquor party organised for foreign and local college students at a farm house in Shilaj area of Rural Ahmedabad on Friday night, leading to the arrest of 15 “drunk” students and five organisers of the party.

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According to officials, three of these six students — two from Kenya and one from Madagascar — are enrolled in Gujarat Technological University-Institute of Technology and Research (ITR), formerly known as GPERI, in Mehsana.

The ICCR, under the Ministry of External Affairs, offers fellowships to international students, and Gujarat University and Gujarat Technological University are among many institutions participating in the programme. Students apply online through the ICCR’s A2A portal.

The foreign students are required to go through the registration process with the FRRO office within 14 days of their arrival to India.

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