Adc 17 july 2013

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Regd. No. MH/MR/South-160/2012-14 RNI Regn. No. 43675/1985 MUMBAI WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 2013 32 PAGES `3 Website: www.afternoondc.in

Aft er oo DESPATCH & COURIER FACT FILE‌ 345 licenced dance bars, aand about 2,500 unlicenced bars were doing business in the state. 70,000 women were engaged in dance bars and several of them had committed suicide due to unemployment and financial problems. 72 per cent of the bar girls are married and 68 per cent are sole bread winners of the family. The then Bombay HC bench of Justice F. I. Rebello and Justice Roshan Dalvi had held that the law passed by the state in 2005 was void as it imposed ‘an unreasonable restriction which was not in the public interest.’ A three judge bench of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir, Justice S. S. Nijjar and Justice Gyan Sudha Mishra of the Supreme Court had earlier asked the Maharashtra state government to consider banning only obscene forms of dance in hotels and bars through the Bombay Police Act.

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By Philip Varghese

even years after the Maharashtra government banned dance bars in the state, around 400 of them will be back to business in the city after the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld

the April 2006 Bombay High Court verdict quashing the state government’s order. While upholding the HC judgement, the apex court bench, comprising of Chief Justice Altamas Kabir and Justice S. S. Nijjar, also vacated its stay

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We are completely satisfied with this decision and now justice is done. No one cared for what happened to these bar dancers after the state government banned dance bars. We refused to agree with the government that bar dancing was promoting prostitution. — Manjeet Singh Sethi, President, Mumbai Dance Bar Owners Association

order on implementation of the HC judgement. In its plea, the state government had contended that prostitution rackets were being run under the garb of beer bars and indecent Continued on pg 2 ÂŤ

NO DANCING YET! SSC countdown... see pg 12

By Prashant Hamine

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he state government will study the Supreme Court judgement upholding the Bombay High Court verdict quashing the state government’s decision to ban dance bars in the state,� stated the Minister for Home, R. R. Patil, in the legislative council yesterday. He said that the government would study the verdict and then decide whether to appeal against the Continued on pg 6 

Not willing to accept the SC verdict on allowing dance bars to operate, the government plans to study the judgement before taking a call

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