Mumbai Police nabbed 97 people, including 28 women, from a restaurant here in the wee hours of Sunday for allegedly disobeying coronavirus prevention protocols and indulging in obscene acts.
The women were later letoff while others, including the restaurant’s manager and three waiters, were arrested, according to Police Senior Inspector Dayanand Bangar.
Based on some inputs, the police conducted a raid at the ‘Bombay Brute’ restaurant located on Link Road in Jogeshwari where they found people dancing, consuming liquor and smoking hookah.
The people were from well-off families in the city and half of them are between 18 and 25 years old. The restaurant manager had invited some people, saying they had reopened the place (following easing of restrictions), according to the official.
The party started at 3 am and the guests were allowed to enter the premises after showing the Whatsapp messages which had a secret code in it, the official added further.
They were charged under Indian Penal Code Sections 294 (obscene acts in public), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), 285 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter), and provisions of the Epidemic Diseases Act.