students, corporate workers and even schoolboys who bribe to get in. Policemen and local thugs also make money off regular haftas from the dance bars. Dance bars serve as a meeting place for criminals, making them a hub for intelligence gathering by police. Laws were enacted and court cases were filed to shut down the dance bars to advance political fortunes and curry favor with moralist public and also due to the breakdown bribery arrangements between the dance bar owners and authorities who were deeply entrenched in the sexual economy of dance bars. Notable incidents Indian scamster Abdul Karim Telgi spent nearly in one night at a dance bar in Grant Road, Mumbai in November 2002. Matka kingpin Suresh Bhagat's son Hitesh allegedly spent per night for two years at dance bars. Samajwadi Party MLA from Sitapur, Uttar Pradesh Mahendra Singh, along with five other persons, was arrested and booked under the Anti-Prostitution Act by Goa police on 26 August 2013 following a raid at a dance bar in Panaji. Police said they arrested Singh from a mujra party at a hotel, and six women dancers who were "rescued", were prostitutes called from Mumbai, Delhi and Chandigarh. Singh later told the media that he was not ashamed about the incident saying, "In UP and Bihar, women dancers perform on every occasion. From the time of mundan, engagement and marriage, we have women who dance to music. Why should I be ashamed of it?" A bar girl allegedly died during a raid of the Ellora Bar and Restaurant in Borivli, Mumbai by the Social Service (SS) branch of the Mumbai Police, around 10 pm IST on 31 August 2013. Kasturba Marg police registered an accidental death report for investigation. However, the bar management claimed that the police had assaulted a bar employee during the raid, which created panic and the bar girl died due to a heart attack. Bar owner Pravin Agrawal said that, "We have CCTV recording of the entire incident. But the police have taken every thing into their custody and even seized the mobile phones of the bar employees. They are not allowing me inside and I am unable to contact my employees." Dance bars outside Maharashtra Dance bars exist in other parts of India, although they are illegal. On 4 June 2006, the Crime Branch of the Delhi Police busted the El Dorado dance bar in Hotel