Other skin scandals that rocked the nation

Israeli women dance naked in India? According to reports, women rallyists from Israel taking part in the Desert Queen rally "got drunk, threw their clothes on stage and danced naked under the moonlight." The incident happened near Pushkar.

Israeli women dance naked in India?

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November 4, 2004

Local officials in Rajasthan were punished after after residents complained a group of Israeli women motorists had danced in the nude.

According to media reports, the incident took place during a party organised just outside the temple-studded town of Pushkar last month to celebrate the end of the Desert Queen rally in which 45 women rallyists from Israel took part.

Local lawmakers and residents said the Israeli women "got drunk, threw their clothes on the stage and danced naked under the moonlight." The local administrator and tourism officials have since been replaced.

However organisers of the Indian leg of the motor rally denied there was any nude dancing and said the incident had been blown out of proportion. The newspaper quoted an official as saying one group of Israeli women had presented a skit enacting an Indian village scene in which women were bathing behind a curtain.

December 9, 2004

Patna High Court directed the police to stop nude cabarets at Asia's largest cattle fair in Sonepur, Bihar.

According to police sources, some theatre owners were showing nude and semi-pornographic shows at the fair. "These naked dance shows are a big hit in the fair," police officials said.

The administration decided to take action after a news channel showed women dancing in various stages of undress at the fair.