The Supreme Court finally lifted the ban on dance bars in 2013 by upholding the Bombay High Court which said the same thing in 2006..
The Maharashtra government banned dance bars again in 2014 by an Ordinance, but this too was found "unconstitutional" by the Supreme Court in October 2015, allowing Mumbai dance bars to reopen..
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The Supreme Court finally lifted the ban on dance bars in 2013 by upholding the Bombay High Court which said the same thing in 2006..
Dance bar is a term used in India to refer to bars in which adult entertainment in the form of dances by relatively well-covered women are performed for male patrons in exchange for cash.
Dance bars used to be present only in Maharashtra, but later spread across the country, mainly in cities..
Dance bars were banned in Maharashtra in 2005 by the coalition government of the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party which claimed they were a den of crime and “immoral activities”.
By one estimate, the ban put more than 75,000 dancers out of work, reportedly driving a large percentage of them to prostitution..
On August 15, 2005, the Maharashtra government had banned all dance bars in Mumbai to “prevent immoral activities, trafficking of women and to ensure the safety of women in general”.
As many as 700 dance bars across Mumbai and Maharashtra were shut down..
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