SC stays Maharashtra dance bar ban

Thursday, 15 October 2015 By IANS Bar, Bench & Litigation

The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the operation of Maharashtra Police Act that prohibited dance performances at eating places, beer bars and restaurants.

Noting that the said provision was brought back in the Maharashtra Police Act in 2014 after being held ultra vires in 2013 by the top court, the bench of Justice Dipak Misra and Justice Prafulla C Pant said that it is “appropriate to stay the provision” that prohibits the dance performances.

However, the court made it clear that the dance performances should not be remotely explicit of any kind of obscenity.

Dipak MisraPrafulla C PantSupreme Court

Comments

whatawaste 16 Oct 2015, 07:20
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Maha government had set up Justice Chandrashekhar Dharmadhikari committee in 2010 with noble and Gandhian intentions, I suppose. Otherwise why the Gandhian Judge, women political leaders, social activists and bureaucrats which was sure to produce a call for 'complete ban' on dance bars ... and only to be struck down by the Supreme Court 5 years later... What a colossal waste of taxpayers' money.
KnowTheTruth 27 Oct 2015, 15:32
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whatawaste:
isn't the whole thing set up such that the legal mechanism will not go jobless.
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