Dance Bars

At least 17 women were rescued during a raid at a dance bar in Mumbai's Andheri, the police said today. The women were found inside a secret basement which was connected toa make-up room, they said.

A case was registered against a pub management in Hyderabad for allowing a minor girl inside after a video of the child dancing with others there went viral on social media, police said on Thursday.

The Mumbai Police's Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) on Saturday raided a dance bar in suburban Mumbai's Malad area and arrested 22 persons, including 14 customers, an official said.

A BJP MLA from Maharashtra, seen dancing with a bar girl in video, has filed a police complaint accusing his opponents of faking the video to defame him.

A Jharkhand police officer was suspended for dancing with a bar girl in Dhanbad district, police said today.

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan launched into a tirade on "dance bars" and "disrespectable people" during his first public speech in Rampur after the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday. He, however, stopped short of naming anybody.

At least 15 people, including a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), were arrested following a raid on a dance bar in Colaba at South Mumbai early on Wednesday, police said.

The people of Maharashtra are against the dance bars, so this judgement doesn't reflect the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra, Maharashtra Home Minister of State Ranjeet Patil said.

Smita Patil, daughter of the late NCP leader R R Patil, on Thursday termed as "unfortunate" the Supreme Court's decision to lift several restrictions on dance bars in Maharashtra.

Standards of morality in a society changes with time, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while setting aside certain provisions of a 2016 Maharashtra law, which restricted licensing and functioning of dance bars in the state.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday accused the Maharashtra government of presenting a weak side before the Supreme Court in the dance bar ban case, alleging a nexus with the association of bar owners.

Maharashtra's tough rules for dance bars have been relaxed by the Supreme Court, which said today "liquor and dance can co-exist". Noting that no dance bar license has been handed out since 2005, the top court said Maharashtra "can't just ban dance bars by trying to regulate them". The court struck down rules like such establishments can't come up ...

An ex-FBI agent who accidentally shot and wounded a Denver bar patron in June after performing a dance-floor back flip pleaded guilty on Friday to misdemeanor assault under a plea deal that spares him from serving jail time, prosecutors said.

Police raided an illegal orchestra bar in Thane today and arrested 42 people, including its owner, manager and customers, and also rescued seven women, an official said.

Authorities in Thousand Oaks, California, northwest of Los Angeles, reported 13 fatalities at a bar and dance hall late Wednesday after multiple shots were fired by a man inside. A deputy sheriff, Ron Helus, was among those killed.

At least 17 women were rescued during a raid at a dance bar in Mumbai's Andheri, the police said today. The women were found inside a secret basement which was connected toa make-up room, they said.

A case was registered against a pub management in Hyderabad for allowing a minor girl inside after a video of the child dancing with others there went viral on social media, police said on Thursday.

The Mumbai Police's Anti Narcotics Cell (ANC) on Saturday raided a dance bar in suburban Mumbai's Malad area and arrested 22 persons, including 14 customers, an official said.

A BJP MLA from Maharashtra, seen dancing with a bar girl in video, has filed a police complaint accusing his opponents of faking the video to defame him.

A Jharkhand police officer was suspended for dancing with a bar girl in Dhanbad district, police said today.

Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan launched into a tirade on "dance bars" and "disrespectable people" during his first public speech in Rampur after the Lok Sabha elections on Sunday. He, however, stopped short of naming anybody.

At least 15 people, including a senior official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), were arrested following a raid on a dance bar in Colaba at South Mumbai early on Wednesday, police said.

The people of Maharashtra are against the dance bars, so this judgement doesn't reflect the sentiments of the people of Maharashtra, Maharashtra Home Minister of State Ranjeet Patil said.

Smita Patil, daughter of the late NCP leader R R Patil, on Thursday termed as "unfortunate" the Supreme Court's decision to lift several restrictions on dance bars in Maharashtra.

Standards of morality in a society changes with time, the Supreme Court said on Thursday while setting aside certain provisions of a 2016 Maharashtra law, which restricted licensing and functioning of dance bars in the state.

The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday accused the Maharashtra government of presenting a weak side before the Supreme Court in the dance bar ban case, alleging a nexus with the association of bar owners.

Maharashtra's tough rules for dance bars have been relaxed by the Supreme Court, which said today "liquor and dance can co-exist". Noting that no dance bar license has been handed out since 2005, the top court said Maharashtra "can't just ban dance bars by trying to regulate them". The court struck down rules like such establishments can't come up ...

An ex-FBI agent who accidentally shot and wounded a Denver bar patron in June after performing a dance-floor back flip pleaded guilty on Friday to misdemeanor assault under a plea deal that spares him from serving jail time, prosecutors said.

Police raided an illegal orchestra bar in Thane today and arrested 42 people, including its owner, manager and customers, and also rescued seven women, an official said.

Authorities in Thousand Oaks, California, northwest of Los Angeles, reported 13 fatalities at a bar and dance hall late Wednesday after multiple shots were fired by a man inside. A deputy sheriff, Ron Helus, was among those killed.