The Kolkata Police launched a drive against unethical hookah bar parlors in the surrounding areas of the city and arrested the manager of the hookah cafe.
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Kolkata Police illegal in surrounding areas including Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal Hookah Bar continuously campaigning against After the order of Metropolitan Firhad Hakim Kolkata Police HQ Lal Bazar is active. Hookah parlors are being searched across the city. Kolkata Municipal Corporation Police raids have been going on ever since the government banned the sale and consumption of hookah. After Friday, the police raided many places in the city on Saturday night as well. hookah bar manager has been arrested.
Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation Firhad Hakim had announced that hookah bars have been banned in Kolkata. Licenses of hookah bars will be cancelled. Those who consume hookah were warned.
Police arrested the manager of ‘Hookah Cafe’
According to Kolkata Police sources, a hookah bar named ‘Hookah Cafe’ in South Kolkata’s Kasba Rajdanga area was raided on Saturday midnight. There hookah was being sold indiscriminately despite the ban of the administration. Customers could be seen smoking hookah at several tables in the cafe. Most of these youths are being told. The manager of the hookah parlor Biswajit Saha has been arrested. Four sets of hookah and quality tobacco were also seized. A suo motu case has also been registered in Kasba police station. Significantly, last Friday night the police raided hookah parlors in several elite areas of the city. In this raid team of Lalbazar, there were workers of anti-riot squad and employees of intelligence department. They raided several restaurants which were illegally open till midnight. Despite the ban, raids continue on charges of selling hookah. Many arrests have also taken place in this operation.
Hookah bar banned in Kolkata, license canceled
Mayor Firhad Hakim had announced the closure of hookah bars in Kolkata in the ‘Talk to Mayor’ program. He had said, “Hookah bars in Kolkata should be closed now. Hookah bars are being seen in every restaurant. This is too bad. The smoke of hookah bar is very harmful. Second, intoxicants are being mixed in it at some places, due to which the younger generation is forced to go to hookah bar again and again. It has become such a big business that people are suffering. That’s why the municipality will no longer give license to hookah bar. Firhad Hakim had also said, “Those who have been given licenses will also be cancelled. I will take the help of the police in this matter. There should be sale of food and drink in the restaurant. Shut down the hookah bar.”
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