Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner Sanjay Kumar on Friday suspended Machindra Khade, senior police inspector attached with the Kalamboli police station, for failing to take action against alleged illegal activities in a ladies’ bar in his jurisdiction.
Mr. Kumar said, “In a period of one month, three raids happened at Captain Bar and none were conducted by him. Hence, the action was taken.” Twenty-nine people were nabbed in the latest raid carried out on Tuesday by Assistant Commissioner of Police (Panvel division) Pradeep Mane and officials of NRI coastal police station.
On learning that semi-clad girls danced in the bar and it operated past midnight, the police sent API Bhushan Pawar of the NRI coastal police station as a decoy customer. After the raid, an FIR was filed with the Kalamboli police and 27 women along with bar manager Santosh Shetty (37) and operator Manigandan Ganeshan (34) were booked. The police said that the bar girls danced indecently to Bollywood songs and made sexual gestures to the customers.
They were charged under Sections 294 (obscene acts and songs) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code, and along with Sections 3 and 8 of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurants and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women Act.
