Acting on a tip-off, Ahmedabad’s Sarkhej police raided the Lounge Casanova near Taj Hotel on Sindhu Bhavan Road and found at least 32 people enjoying hookah shots there.
The cops nabbed the manager of the illegal hookah bar along with the owner of the place for allowing the hookah bar to run disguised as a cafe. They also confiscated six hookahs and 75 flavour packets valued at around ₹17,000. These flavour samples have been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for analysis of the nicotine levels in them.
Police Inspector RK Dhulia from Sarkhej police station commented on the operation, stating that several cafes on Sindhu Bhavan Road have been operating as hookah bars in disguise. Our probe led us to the Lounge Casanova where the illegal activity was ongoing.
It is learned that the owner of this lounge is one Pinkesh Patel who runs the illegal hookah bar in partnership with Rajdeep Soni and Kamlesh Bagda.
Just a week ago, the crime branch also raided a similar cafe named Big Daddy Cafe in the city’s Bopal area, where a hookah bar was found to be operating illegally.
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