Mumbai Bar Dancers Hidden In Airless Room Rescued

Mumbai: A dance bar being run in the guise of an orchestra bar was raided on Wednesday at the SV Road in Mumbai. The police arrested 30 men including the bar employees and the customers. They also registered a case against the owner of Nityanand bar, who has gone absconding.

The police on a tip-off learnt that a dance bar was being run although the license was to run an orchestra bar. They conducted a raid at the place. On learning about the police raid, all the dance girls were hidden in a small room with no ventilation. "The bar has a small hidden room in the kitchen on the first floor," a police officer said.

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As the raid continued for three to four hours, the women inside the room were suffocated and some of them had even fainted due to lack of air. All the 16 women between 20 and 25 years of age were shifted to women's shelter in the city.

The police cancelled the bar license and seized it. A case of culpable homicide was registered against the bar owner and the police has launched a hunt to nab the owner.