The Supreme Court today issued notice to Maharashtra in a petition by the Bharatiya Bargirls’ Union, challenging the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurants and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women (Working therein) Act, 2016. A Bench of Justices Dipak Misra and Rohinton Nariman ordered the State counsel to be served with a copy of the petition. The petition filed through Advocate Nikhil Nayyar prays for a direction to “declare the provisions of the Maharashtra Prohibition of Obscene Dance in Hotels, Restaurants and Bar Rooms and Protection of Dignity of Women (working therein) Act, 2016 as […]
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