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Dance bars exist in Calangute: Sarpanch

MAPUSA

Calangute Sarpanch Joseph Sequeira on Wednesday maintained that dance bars do exist in Calangute and his panchayat was hell bent to eliminate this menace from the map of the beach village.

“Let anybody say anything. I know that dance bars are operating illegally in Calangute. We will not rest until the stigma is removed from our village once for all,” Sequeira told The Goan.

He, however, admitted that people should not take the law into their hands and hold their horses and allow the panchayat to follow legal procedure in taking action against the illegalities.

Sequeira also said that there was a lot of pressure on him to go slow but he would respect the sentiments of the villagers over the issue on the dance bars.




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Yesterday’s ‘villains’ turned ‘good guys’, claim girls employed in clubs waitresses, not dancers

THE GOAN NETWORK
Published Dec 22, 2022, 12:40 AM IST
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Yesterday’s ‘villains’ turned ‘good guys’, claim girls employed in clubs waitresses, not dancers

MAPUSATill yesterday there were ‘villains’ of an unholy trade but on Wednesday the much-maligned club owners of Calangute opened out stating that they were actually the ‘good guys’ as their business was legit and the girls employed in the clubs/restaurants were waitresses and not dancers.The club owners also said that there were legally operating bar and restaurants but it was wrongly coined as dance bars.The owners cum partners of at least a dozen of such clubs in the beach…

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