I came for birthday party, not rave party: Sharma

May 21, 2012 14:25

India and Pune Warriors cricketer Rahul Sharma today refuted allegation that he was prsent at a rave party at a Mumbai hotel, claiming that he had gone there to attend a birthday celebration.

"I was invited to a birthday party. Wayne Parnell was with me, I did not know that there was a rave party at the hotel," said the spinner, who along with his Pune Warriors teammate, was detained by the police after a raid at the Hotel Oakwoods in Juhu.

"We reached there at around 7 pm and all of a sudden within half an hour of us reaching there, the police raid happened. We didn't know what was happening, I asked the police officers and they told me that a raid was in progress," he said. Sharma said he has been cooperative with the police and claimed that he has never touched alcohol.

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