PANAJI/LUCKNOW:
Revelry at a birthday bash on a Goa beach hotel and creating a dance
bar ambience with women imported from Delhi has landed UP Samajwadi Party legislator Mahendra Kumar Singh
behind bars. Singh was arrested along with five others on Monday night
after Goa police busted the party being attended by the 55-year-old MLA.
All the arrested were booked under Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act and remanded in police custody for six days.
Police said officers who raided the terrace party at Viva hotel in Campal found six women performers dancing to loud music. As the police team entered, the women locked themselves in a room, raising suspicion, said Goa police inspector Rajendra Prabhudesai. Singh, a four-time MLA ,is the son-in-law of veteran SP leader Bhagwati Singh.
Samajwadi Party does not rush to its MLA's defence
The MLA from Sitapur in central UP, who represents Sevta assembly seat, flew into Goa along with his friends on Sunday and was staying in Candolim beach.
Singh said he was being singled out for harsh treatment. "Dance programmes take place everywhere in Goa and police do not arrest anyone. I arrived in Goa on August 24 and yesterday I had gone to Panaji to visit a casino. There I received a call from my friend, inviting me for a birthday party which I went to attend," he told TOI at the police station. He said he had reached barely half an hour before the cops showed up.
His party, however, didn't rush to defend him. SP spokesperson and senior minister Rajendra Chaudhary said, "Whatever we have come to know about the MLA is through the media. The party is in the process of collecting relevant details."
Singh's family initially feigned ignorance but later his son, Pawan Kumar Singh, said his father was on a business trip to Mumbai. "He is a four-time MLA and his reputation cannot be blemished. Somebody is trying to tarnish his image," he said. Singh has been an MLA since 1996. He represented Behta between 1996 and 2007 and won from Sevta when the name changed after delimitation.
Police said what aroused suspicion was that the girls didn't know each other and it appeared that they had been arranged by different persons for the evening.
"If the girls had been part of a troupe or orchestra, they would have known each other well and would not run for cover. The girls behaved suspiciously," a police source said.
Cops said four of the six girls were from Delhi and all had been sent to a women's shelter. There are no dance bars at any Goa hotel and those at Viva had arranged the programme on the terrace. "The loud music disturbed residents in the area, prompting Cumbharjua Congress MLA Pandurang Madkaikar to call the police," a source said. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Samajwadi-Party-MLA-from-Uttar-Pradesh-held-in-Goa-dance-bar/articleshow/22108979.cms
All the arrested were booked under Prevention of Immoral Trafficking Act and remanded in police custody for six days.
Police said officers who raided the terrace party at Viva hotel in Campal found six women performers dancing to loud music. As the police team entered, the women locked themselves in a room, raising suspicion, said Goa police inspector Rajendra Prabhudesai. Singh, a four-time MLA ,is the son-in-law of veteran SP leader Bhagwati Singh.
Samajwadi Party does not rush to its MLA's defence
The MLA from Sitapur in central UP, who represents Sevta assembly seat, flew into Goa along with his friends on Sunday and was staying in Candolim beach.
Singh said he was being singled out for harsh treatment. "Dance programmes take place everywhere in Goa and police do not arrest anyone. I arrived in Goa on August 24 and yesterday I had gone to Panaji to visit a casino. There I received a call from my friend, inviting me for a birthday party which I went to attend," he told TOI at the police station. He said he had reached barely half an hour before the cops showed up.
His party, however, didn't rush to defend him. SP spokesperson and senior minister Rajendra Chaudhary said, "Whatever we have come to know about the MLA is through the media. The party is in the process of collecting relevant details."
Singh's family initially feigned ignorance but later his son, Pawan Kumar Singh, said his father was on a business trip to Mumbai. "He is a four-time MLA and his reputation cannot be blemished. Somebody is trying to tarnish his image," he said. Singh has been an MLA since 1996. He represented Behta between 1996 and 2007 and won from Sevta when the name changed after delimitation.
Police said what aroused suspicion was that the girls didn't know each other and it appeared that they had been arranged by different persons for the evening.
"If the girls had been part of a troupe or orchestra, they would have known each other well and would not run for cover. The girls behaved suspiciously," a police source said.
Cops said four of the six girls were from Delhi and all had been sent to a women's shelter. There are no dance bars at any Goa hotel and those at Viva had arranged the programme on the terrace. "The loud music disturbed residents in the area, prompting Cumbharjua Congress MLA Pandurang Madkaikar to call the police," a source said. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/lucknow/Samajwadi-Party-MLA-from-Uttar-Pradesh-held-in-Goa-dance-bar/articleshow/22108979.cms
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