Salve to SC: Allow time to show 'dance bar is an animal in itself'

Friday, 27 November 2015 By Prachi Shrivastava Bar, Bench & Litigation

Harish Salve said he has materials to show that “dance bar is an animal in itself”, while acting for Maharashtra which defended its defiance of the Supreme Court’s order that had directed it to begin accepting bar licence applications, reported Indian Express.

Salve asked a bench of justices Dipak Misra and PC Pant, for additional time to produce materials highlighting the harmful sociological effects of dance bars, and submitted that the Maharashtra government will, in the interim, comply with the court’s 12 October order that had stayed its prohibitive law on dance bars.

The bench said: “We must remind the authority that the court order has to be respected. We have stayed your new law that prohibited dance performances. Now our order has to be complied with without any deviation.” “Are they (organisations) puritans? Dance performances do not take place only at these bars. Dance has been a respectable concept in India for centuries. You are calling it a social evil but this may only be a problem relating to law and order which can be regulated. We have already said no to obscenity so can you now prohibit them citing some social norms?”

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Guest 1 Dec 2015, 10:00

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The matter raised by the Counsel Harish Salve is needed to be looked in from a wider view of social aspect. Though everyone is bound to follow the order passed by our h'ble Courts. But as the courts are for the well been of the society and it sometimes becomes unable for the courts to view from the angles that are needed to be looked into and that too may be due to many number of reasons, which are not needed to be discussed here. It is confirmed that the matter raised by the Ld. Counsel will affect the coming orders of the Apex Court. As the matter of fact sometimes the bad is made to happen in the wraps of the good and in regard of the dance bars it is also true. But in one respect I do agree that before banning the dance bar appropriate measures for the rehabilitation of the girls and women should be taken note of very seriously. And it is not just the duty of the governments but also our social and moral responsibility to help these dance bar workers in rehabilitation.

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