After allowing a nightclub to operate out of a basement on Bandra's Waterfield Road for more than a decade, the BMC has dropped a bombshell on it. The civic body cancelled the eating house licence of posh club, Drop, for running in a basement without the necessary permission from the Fire Department. Now, senior officials are questioning how the club was ever allowed to open underground when this is against the rules.

Drop was originally launched by the name Poison in 2006, and was owned by actor Salman Khan then. It has changed several hands and is currently owned by Prashant Gunjalkar.
Back in February 2006, the BMC's health licence (also known as eating house licence) and chief fire officer's NOC was granted to Aura Entertainment and Leisure Private Limited for Poison. However, this year, when H-West ward officials conducted two inspections — on January 9 and October 6 —the club management could not furnish the NOC. Following this, the BMC cancelled the licence on December 3.