Customers can’t be booked for obscene dance performed by bar girls: Bombay HC
Hindustan TimesThe Bombay high court recently struck down a first information report registered against three businessmen booked for showering money on bars girls when police raided the dance bar in Santacruz in March 2018. The Santacruz police had on March 6, 2018, registered a first information report against 39 persons found at Star Night Bar and Restaurant, when they raided the bar and claimed to have found that some bar girls were performing obscene dance at the time. Advocate Mehta submitted that from the material collected by the police, it could be said that the three businessmen were present in the dance bar when the police raided the establishment, but mere presence at the place where dance was being performed cannot be termed as “aiding and abetting” and therefore the businessmen could not have been roped in as accused in the case. The bench struck down the criminal proceedings against the three businessmen after noting that they were not concerned with the establishment and hence cannot be said to have aided or abetted the obscene dance performance.
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