Navi Mumbai: 31 booked, including 11 women, for obscene acts at bar

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Nerul Police in Navi Mumbai announced on Saturday that a charge has been filed against 31 people, including 11 female servers and vocalists, for allegedly acting in an obscene manner at a restaurant that doubles as a bar, according to a PTI report.

According to the report, the operation was the result of a night time raid at the location on Thursday and Friday, as Senior Inspector Ravindra Daundkar of the Turbhe police station reported.

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Daundkar claimed that the female singers were observed acting improperly and making lewd gestures towards the patrons, and that the patrons were also observed to be supporting this behaviour, the report added.

Eleven female waiters, three male waiters, sixteen patrons, the establishment's owner, and the manager are among those booked, according to the police.

The case has been registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 294 (which deals with obscene acts and songs) and 34 (which deals with common intention).

In another incident, after conducting a raid on a city pub, the Thane police filed a case against 22 people, including ladies, bar owners, and singers. The station house officer of the Chitalsar police station verified that numerous permit and regulatory violations were found during the raid, which took place on November 11 and 12, according to a PTI report. The identities of the bar owners, a number of bargirls, singers, and some patrons were also included in the FIR. As of yet, no one has been taken into custody in relation to this case.

Furthermore, in another incident, three persons posing as police officers were accused of robbing a Thane district store owner of jewellery worth Rs 1.89 lakh. Two individuals posing as officers conducting an inspection reportedly stopped the victim and his wife. They instructed the victim to take off his jewellery and put it in his pocket on a piece of paper. The other two were able to exchange the valuables in the paper because a third accomplice set up a distraction. The three then stole the jewellery, which prompted the Indian Penal Code's applicable sections to be filed with a case against them.

With agency inputs