Farmhouses, haven for illegal activities

Considering that the victim died under the influence of alcohol on a dry day, it raises serious questions about the free flow of alcohol in blatant violation of Gandhi Jayanti ban on sale of alcohol.

Yet, police have not taken any action against the resort management yet for serving alcohol at a party on Gandhi Jayanthi. Also, it is evident that the farm house, which was available for rent, did not have a lifeguard to save Michael Raj. 

Not the first such incident 

Recently, a young music student died under mysterious circumstances at another farmhouse on ECR and the doubts raised by the parents of the youth remain unanswered.  Sources said that the cops and resort management keeps a ‘cordial’ relation so that there are no surprise checks and actions taken from the police side. The farmhouses on the East Coast Road have become the centres for all sorts of nefarious activities, with free flow of high end drugs, alcohol and flesh trade, they added. 

During weekends, not just Chennaiites but even people from Bengaluru come down to ECR in the name of private parties. 

Most high net worth individual in the city have their own farmhouses on this stretch and apart from that there are many commercial ones which charge anything from Rs 10,000 to Rs 1.5 lakh a day. 

Sources in Narcotics Intelligence Bureau say that high end party drugs like cocaine are in regular use at these farmhouses during parties. Invariably most of the mysterious deaths had been dismissed as accidental deaths and no proper action had been taken against the resort managers.