The Bombay High Court yesterday declined to grant the owner of the infamous Duru Bar in Ulhasnagar any interim relief against an order of a single judge bench of the high court, who had upheld the Thane Police Commissioner’s order to cancel the bar’s licences.

MiD DAY had exposed (Dance bar struts along despite 1,503 raids, licence recall, October 27) how the notorious dance bar, where a couple of murders had occurred in the past, continued to operate despite its licences being cancelled.