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Mumbai's Bar Girls Win Big in Court

Where: Mumbai, India
April 13, 2006 at 10:15 AM | by | Comment (1)

One unique feature of Mumbai nightlife has been its dance bars, where pretty ladies dance to Bollywood songs in return for tips in the form of "money showers" from appreciative men. At least they don't call them golden showers.

The bars were a feature until last fall, when the state government there banned the practice, saying that the dance bars were a cover for prostitution and encouraged crime. With one stroke of the pen, 75,000 women were thrown out of work and 1,300 bars were closed. With few other options, some of the former dancers did take up the world's oldest profession to make ends meet.

Yesterday, Mumbai's High Court overturned the ruling, saying that the ban was unconstitutional. The bar girls, the owners, and other workers aren't out of the woods yet, though, since the ban will remain in effect for at least eight more weeks to give the state to file an appeal. The state has said it will require to bars to re-apply for permits, so we hope that money showers are soon to return.

Related Stories:
·   Mumbai dance bars to reopen [GG2]
·   Bar girls dance with joy over HC order [Hindustan Times]
·   Ban lifted but dance bar not a fundamental right [Culcutta Telegraph]
·   Bar Girls of Mumbai [Dance with Shadows]

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dance bars in Mumbai are still operating with

Many dance bars in Mumbai are still operating with live orchestra; and waitresses are there to serve the food and drinks. Apart from these waitresses there are few more girls can bee seen standing or talking to customers, these girls are the actual bar-girls who used to perform dance before the ban on dance bars.

Many of the girls are now entered into flesh-trade; there are several bars in Mumbai where there are hotel rooms/lodges exactly above the bar. Here I have found a snap of such bar, click here. .

Trafficking is the major issue originated by such kind of joints. Girls are trafficked from Bangladesh, kolkata, and from some parts of Delhi, and Rajasthan. Girls from poor family and easily accept the offer to work in Mumbai and finally land up into the hands of these bars. Most of the times there is a middle-man; who eats almost all the money earned by the girls in the beginning.

All this can be stopped if the Govt. can remove ban on dance-bars and allow the dance performance. This should be accompanied with some strict rules about the

time-limit, code of conduct, and some security to the bar-girls. All the girls working in such bars should undergo scanning to find

out all the possible causes of trafficking and the people responsible for it.
Sandeep Maske on January 14, 2010 at 6:54 AM #Permalink

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