Hookah centre raided near Govaves
The Tilakwadi Police raided a restaurant BLOO near petrol pump on Khanapur Road on Saturday night at 9 PM and fined 25 youths including 3 women under the the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 2003, and the rules framed there under.
The restaurant running there allegedly had this illegal hookah bar. An eating house, which is called a restaurant, is a public place and smoking of tobacco in any form, including cigarettes, cigars, beedis or otherwise with the aid of a pipe, wrapper or any other instruments, is prohibited by under the Act.
When the police raided the place a few were using the hookah and a few were smoking cigarettes. All were fined Rs.200 as per the provisions of the act and let off. The owner was been questioned.