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Twelve staff members arrested as police raid dance bar in Kashimira

Updated on: 20 October,2016 07:46 PM IST  | 
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Acting on a tip off, the Kashimira police, on Tuesday night raided a dance bar in Bhayander area late on Tuesday night

Twelve staff members arrested as police raid dance bar in Kashimira

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Acting on a tip off, the Kashimira police, on Tuesday night raided a dance bar in Bhayander area late on Tuesday night.



The dance bar was running vulgar and obscene activities under the garb of live orchestra performances. Kashimira policemen sent a decoy and after confirmation raided the Maansi- Live Orchestra bar on the highway in Kashimira.


Twelve people including the operator, manager, cashier, waiters and band crew have been arrested and booked under the relevant sections of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in hotels, restaurants and bar rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women Act, 2016.

According to a report in Free Press Journal, the place was running an orchestra bar but would in fact hold dance performances by female singers.

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