Police are planning to set a deadline of 9.30 pm for lady waiters working in bars in the city, the Bombay High Court was told today.

Police are also planning to restrict the number of female singers to two per three-hour shift, public prosecutor Poornima Kantharia said during the hearing of several petitions filed by 'orchestra-bars' in the city.

After the dance bars were banned in 2005, many bars in the city turned into orchestra bars. Such bars have female singers and sometimes female waiters.