In 2005, when the incumbent state home minister R R Patil, who was then deputy chief minister, announced a ban on dance bars, he received fulsome praise by his followers as well as those unaware of the legal and administrative nitty-gritty

Charged by a chorus of denunciation against the bars for socio-moral dubiety, Patil failed to take sufficient care while introducing key changes in the Bombay Police Act to outlaw the bars.u00a0