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Bigg Boss 17 winner Munawar Faruqui among 14 detained after raid at hookah bar in Mumbai
A case was registered against all the accused and they were released after being questioned, police said.
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Bigg Boss 17 winner Munawar Faruqui and 13 others were detained after a raid at a hookah bar in Mumbai's Fort area, a police official said on Wednesday, adding that all the accused were later released as the sections slapped against them were bailable.
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The raid was conduced by Mumbai Police's Social Service branch at 10:30pm on Tuesday at a hookah parlour in Bora Bazar, the official further said, adding that the operation continued till 5am on Wednesday.
"The police found stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui and others smoking hookahs at the joint. We also have a video of their act. We detained them, but they were later allowed to go as the sections slapped against them were bailable," a senior officer told PTI.
The raid was carried out after police received a tip-off that some patrons were smoking tobacco-based hookahs at the parlour in the guise of smoking herbal hookahs, he said.
Faruqui and his co-accused have been booked under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA), along with the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 283 (danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation), 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others).
Notices were served to those detained by the Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg police and they were allowed to go.
