The Mumbai police has started a fresh drive, this time, with the help of the BMC, to identify hidden cavities in bars in the city where the dancing girls are hidden when they raid them. This is a fallout of the recent Deepa Bar raid, in which dancers were found hiding in secret chambers. The top brass of the Mumbai police asked all police stations in the city to rope in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Officials have asked police personnel to write to the local ward offices and carry out inspections of bars and restaurants. 

Dangerous for dancing girls

The police said that these cavities are made in the bars with structural alterations and hence, only BMC officials could help identify these secret spots with the help of floor plans. “Many times the bar managers who tend to break the rules of having minimum dancers on the floor, stuff the girls in these cavities, fearing police actions. The girls are forced to stay inside without ventilation and it could prove fatal for them. In the past, during police raids, some girls were found unconscious in those hidden spots,” an officer, who served the Social Service Branch in the past, said.