During raids on Hotel Rajadhani, Hotel Aishwarya , Hotel Sky Heaven, Hotel Sakhi, Hotel Kajal, Port of Pavilion and Blue Heaven, police said they found women gyrating on dance floors and customers misbehaving with them. Police sources said the women were skimpily clad and customers were showering them with currency notes. The joints did not have authorization to play music on the public address system. The raids began past 10pm and ended by midnight . About 300 customers were also picked up and taken to jurisdictional Upparpet police station, and later released.
A senior police officer said dance bars are illegal. He said the rescued women were sent back to their homes after police collected their details, including permanent addresses. They will involve NGOs now to inform the girls' guardians, and check if they can be rehabilitated . Besides recovering music equipment, police also seized Rs 35 ,000 in cash during the raids. Of the rescued women, 50 were from Punjab, 47 from Maharashtra, 32 from West Bengal, 28 from Delhi, 25 each from Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, nine from Bihar , seven from Andhra Pradesh , four from Rajasthan and one each from Nepal, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat . Twenty men were picked up for running these seven joints.
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