Owners of Times Bar & Restaurant on the lam.
By Sreekanth A. Nair
In a shocking incident, Bengaluru police rescued 77 girls who were forced to perform a striptease at a bar in the heart of the city.
An India Today report said that 37 people from the Times Bar & Restaurant were arrestedon Saturday night.
The police were surprised to see many girls performing a striptease when they raided the bar after a tip-off. Many customers were throwing currencies at the girls performing at the bar.
About Rs. 2 lakh ($2941) was found from the floor of the bar, thrown by the customers.
The police said that the girls rescued were from Nepal and Bihar. According to the police, the owners of the bar tempted the girls from backward families by offering them jobs, then forced them to do a striptease at the bar later on.
The owners of the bar – Gangashetty and his partners, Omprakash Yadav, Vanitha, Shanti Swaroop, Dhanendra and Syed Sameer are on the run and the police have started an investigation to catch them. Multiple cases have been registered against them.