New Delhi — India’s top court on July 16 overturned a ban on dance bars in the city of Mumbai, allowing hundreds of premises which employed women to dance and entertain customers to reopen.
The ruling upheld a 2006 judgement by the Bombay High Court, which said the ban instituted by the Maharashtra state government a year earlier violated the constitutional right to earn a living.
There were about 700 establishments across Maharashtra state employing more than 75,000 women who performed Bollywood-style dance routines. — AFP