HYDERABAD: The pub at upmarket locale of Banjara Hills which was raided for organising ‘Mujra’ was just two-month-old. In fact, they had conducted three such events in the past. The pub, Hydrogen lounge, is learnt to have rented out its premises for private parties to make quick money, which came under the scanner of police. Police found out that there was no practice of maintaining a guest list even though liquor was being served. Guidelines for maintaining business operations were also not being followed allegedly.
“They have recently started operations, and in order to make quick money they have indulged in such activities and this, in fact, is the third time that such private party was being hosted,” said a representative of Troy, a lounge situated next to it.
They charge about Rs 30,000-Rs 40,000 per night to hold such private parties serving free liquor and food to the people, he added. The recently started lounge, amid multiple pubs being operated in the vicinity, has mostly catered to groups whose credentials were always questioned by the management of other pubs. The crowds at the lounge mostly were allegedly unruly and lacking sense of conduct. “The customers who come to the pub do not know the way to conduct themselves in a lounge,” said one of the pub owners.
Meanwhile, the owner of the Hydrogen lounge, which was raided, said that there was no such illicit dance parties that was taking place inside the premises. “The booking was done for a birthday party at about 5 pm in the evening. After the guests arrived, a few women dressed in an objectionable manner entered into the pub. By the time we confronted them, the police arrived,” said Mahesh, the lounge owner.