Hyd fast becoming hub for rave parties, drugs

Hyderabad: The arrest of 20 girls flown in from Mumbai, Delhi and Sikkim and over a dozen men, belonging to affluent families, from a resort on the outskirts of the State capital is only the tip of the iceberg of the growing menace of rave parties.

The rave party culture is leading to increasing use of drugs and indecent dances.

It may be recalled around 75,000 bar girls lost their livelihood in Maharashtra with government ban imposed in 2005 on girls dancing in the bars without rehabilitating them.

As a result, most of them started looking for an alternative livelihood. But what they knew and what they have been doing all their life was either to dance at bars or to sell sexual pleasure for their customers.

Organising hot dance programmes at secret locations has become the order of the day in and around Hyderabad.

Organisers of obscene dance parties and flesh trade in Hyderabad started to cash in on the desperation of the jobless bar girls. Initially, these girls, popularly known as Mumbai bar girls, were hired to work in the dance bars of Hyderabad.

However, the city police succeeded in imposing a ban on dance bars forcing the organisers to look for other ways.

It was then they began organising secret parties at resorts and farm houses located on the outskirts of the city. It is alleged that most of the time police also help these organisers after collecting protection money, sources said.

Only when police are not adequately greased, raids would be carried out and poor girls dancing for their livelihood would be arrested along with the partying crowd, sources said.

Recently, the west zone police raided a location in Banjara Hills even before the rave party began and arrested two girls and some boys.

Sometime back, the Medchal police arrested 53 people including 19 Mumbai girls, 30 customers and four organisers from Green Villa Resorts at Muneerabad village.

Police said the organisers had engaged the dancers to perform obscene dances, and customers including businessmen and realtors were found showering money on dancers under the influence of alcohol.

In September last year, police raided Darling Cave Resort at Turkapally in Medchal Police Station limits and arrested 28 persons including six bar girls from Mumbai.

In April 2010, 16 persons including 10 female dancers were arrested at Shamshabad.

These are the only cases that have come to light during occasional raids. Sources say the Mumbai bar girls were ever present in the city and would be dancing at one or the other party.