Chandigarh nightlife to witness reduced hemline; ban on short skirts
Chandigarh, April 20: Killing the buzzing nightlife of Chandigarh, the city administration appears to have taken the onus of moral policing, ruling that scantily dressed women or any indecency would not be accepted.
'Controlling of Places of Public Amusement, 2016' policy is what the bureaucrats cite for imposing the regulation on youngsters. A way to throttle the city's nightlife in the name of regulation, the bureaucrats believe that these bars and discotheques are the breeding grounds for anti-national elements.
The policy also curtails the bar timings by 2 hours from 2 am to 12 in the midnight. The policy also allows the nodal committee comprising the deputy commissioner as chairman and municipal corporation (MC) commissioner, Chandigarh police SSP, director, health services and excise and taxation commissioner, to cancel the renewal of business operations of the bars if the norms are not followed.
Ironically, the policy does not define "scantily dressed" or "reduced hemline" and has left it to public imagination. Lawyer Anupam Gupta,, who has gone through the draft of the policy said that the entire draft was faulty.
The policy also framed the following regulations:
1.
To
be
indecent
or
of
a
scurrilous
character
2.To
contain
offensive
reference
to
personalities
3.
To
be
seditious
or
likely
to
excite
political
discontent
4.
To
promote
hostile
feelings
between
different
classes
5.
To
be
calculated
to
cause
a
breach
of
peace
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