Panaji: Goa Police on Friday started questioning the organisers of the Sun Burn Music Festival two days after 23-year-old Meha Bahuguna died of a drug overdose.
A post mortem has confirmed that Meha died after consuming drugs.
Goa Police say they are questioning staff at the festival to determine if drugs were sold at the venue.
Organisers have also been asked to furnish CCTV footage of the entire event.
Police are also trying to ascertain if and how drugs were brought to the venue from outside.
"We have the post mortem report and have sent the viscera for further investigations. We are also consulting doctors as we have reports that she was under psychiatric treatment. We will also check with Narcotics Control Bureau why they couldn't control drug supply to the festival," said Goa DGP BS Bassi.
Meha had come from Bangalore to attend the festival but was taken to a private hospital in Panaji after she collapsed at the party venue on Tuesday evening.
She had reportedly consumed a hallucinatory drug called PCP.
Meha worked for ITC Gardens in Bangalore and had won free tickets to the Sunburn Music Festival along with a two way tickets to Goa.
Meha's father Manu Bahuguna said that his daughter was suffering from bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression.
Bipolar Disorder is a serious mental health problem involving extreme mood swings, usually lasting weeks or months at a time.
The moods can be euphoric highs or bouts of deep depression and despair. It is also linked to stressful situations, which can trigger an episode of mania or depression in susceptible people, typically in their 20s.
Among those present at the party was VJ Nikhil Chinnappa.
The festival, being hosted at the height of Goa's party season and the New Year eve, brought people from all over the world together to be a part of the musical extravaganza.
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