Hookah Bars

Munawar Faruqui detained: Stand-up comedian and reality TV star Munawar Faruqui was detained by Mumbai police during a raid at a hookah parlour on Wednesday.

The Haryana Assembly on Monday passed a bill that prohibits opening or running hookah bars or serving hookah to customers in any place, including eating houses, in the state.

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill that prohibits hookah bars in the state, and carries a penal provision of imprisonment of one-to-three years and fines of up to Rs 1 lakh for violations.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has imposed a total ban on serving hookah in hotels, restaurants, bars and commercial establishments in Haryana. Teams will be formed to stop the serving of Hookah in bars, pubs and restaurants.

The ban comes months after Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta raised a demand that commercial establishments stop serving hookah.

To tackle the threat of young people getting addicted to tobacco, the Karnataka government is planning to ban hookah bars and increase the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21.

A 41-year-old man from Bhiwandi city in Thane district of Maharashtra tried to kill himself at a police station after his illegal hookah parlour was sealed, an official said on Tuesday.

The girl also reportedly informed her father that the accused Instagram friend had made an obscene video of her and was blackmailing her for the past few days. She said the accused was threatening to make the video viral.

The Uttar Pradesh police busted a bar operating out of a mall in Greater Noida for allegedly serving hookah to customers without permission, officials said adding that 25 people were apprehended in this connection.

At least one person was killed and 13 others were injured during a shooting at a Las Vegas hookah lounge on Saturday (local time).

The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought response of the Delhi Government on a plea by a lounge and bar owner seeking to restrain the authorities from interfering with its business of serving herbal hookah, as permitted by the court recently.

The Delhi High Court has allowed for the time being the use of herbal hookah in restaurants and pubs in the national capital, saying that COVID-19 restrictions cannot be permitted to continue at the cost of livelihood.

The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Delhi Police not to harass restaurants and bars, which have filed pleas seeking permission to sell and serve herbal flavoured hookahs, and not to park their vehicles outside their premises.

The Delhi Police on Thursday busted a hookah bar running in the basement of a property dealer's office in west Delhi''s Paschim Vihar area and arrested 17 people, officials said.

The Delhi Police joined the viral meme fest "pawri ho rahi hai" (party is on) on Twitter today after officials seized 24 "hookahs" (smoking pipes) during a raid at a restaurant-cum-bar in the city.

Munawar Faruqui detained: Stand-up comedian and reality TV star Munawar Faruqui was detained by Mumbai police during a raid at a hookah parlour on Wednesday.

The Haryana Assembly on Monday passed a bill that prohibits opening or running hookah bars or serving hookah to customers in any place, including eating houses, in the state.

The Karnataka Legislative Assembly on Wednesday passed a bill that prohibits hookah bars in the state, and carries a penal provision of imprisonment of one-to-three years and fines of up to Rs 1 lakh for violations.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has imposed a total ban on serving hookah in hotels, restaurants, bars and commercial establishments in Haryana. Teams will be formed to stop the serving of Hookah in bars, pubs and restaurants.

The ban comes months after Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta raised a demand that commercial establishments stop serving hookah.

To tackle the threat of young people getting addicted to tobacco, the Karnataka government is planning to ban hookah bars and increase the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21.

A 41-year-old man from Bhiwandi city in Thane district of Maharashtra tried to kill himself at a police station after his illegal hookah parlour was sealed, an official said on Tuesday.

The girl also reportedly informed her father that the accused Instagram friend had made an obscene video of her and was blackmailing her for the past few days. She said the accused was threatening to make the video viral.

The Uttar Pradesh police busted a bar operating out of a mall in Greater Noida for allegedly serving hookah to customers without permission, officials said adding that 25 people were apprehended in this connection.

At least one person was killed and 13 others were injured during a shooting at a Las Vegas hookah lounge on Saturday (local time).

The Delhi High Court Wednesday sought response of the Delhi Government on a plea by a lounge and bar owner seeking to restrain the authorities from interfering with its business of serving herbal hookah, as permitted by the court recently.

The Delhi High Court has allowed for the time being the use of herbal hookah in restaurants and pubs in the national capital, saying that COVID-19 restrictions cannot be permitted to continue at the cost of livelihood.

The Delhi High Court Thursday directed the Delhi Police not to harass restaurants and bars, which have filed pleas seeking permission to sell and serve herbal flavoured hookahs, and not to park their vehicles outside their premises.

The Delhi Police on Thursday busted a hookah bar running in the basement of a property dealer's office in west Delhi''s Paschim Vihar area and arrested 17 people, officials said.

The Delhi Police joined the viral meme fest "pawri ho rahi hai" (party is on) on Twitter today after officials seized 24 "hookahs" (smoking pipes) during a raid at a restaurant-cum-bar in the city.