Dance bars can operate again in Mumbai, bar girls happy

In 2005, dance performances in bars of the state of Maharashtra were banned, but three-star and five-star hotels were kept out of the purview of the Act. As a result, hundreds of girls who worked in the bars and earned a living by dancing lost their jobs.
The Supreme Court has, now, stayed the ban on dance bars across the state and this order will restore the livelihood of bar dancers and reopen dance bars. This would come as a major relief for bar girls and owners of dance bar owners in Maharashtra.
This has been reported in ibnlive.com dated 15 October 2015.

The state government has defended the amended law on dance bars and has said that the government still has the right to regulate to ensure there is no obscenity. This is as per directives of the apex court who has given power to licensing authorities to regulate indecent dance performances.
Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar has welcomed the move and feels it is wrong to put a blanket ban on all dance bars. There will be rules and regulations to check on indecency. Shakti Kapoor, an actor of yesteryear feels dance bars are a means of livelihood for many girls and the cops need to have an eye on all the dance bars.
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