Bigg Boss 17 winner and popular rapper Munawar Faruqui was detained by the Mumbai police among the 14 individuals after they were found smoking hookahs during a raid in south Mumbai. However, Faruqi was released later by the police.
The Mumbai Police’s Social Service Branch on Tuesday conducted a raid at around 10:30 pm at a hookah parlor located in Bora Bazar area of Fort. The raid got over at 5 am on Wednesday.
“During the raid, the police found stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui and others smoking hookahs at the joint. We also have a video of their act. We detained Faruqui and others, but they were later allowed to go as the sections slapped against them were bailable,” a senior police official said.
According to the information received by the police, a few people in the hookah bar were smoking tobacco-based hookahs in the guise of smoking herbal hookahs.
Faruqui and others were booked under the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act along with the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 283 (danger or obstruction in a public way or line of navigation), 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others), the police said.
The Mumbai Police served notice to Faruqui and others by the Mata Ramabai Ambedkar Marg police and released them after shortly.
