India's top court on Tuesday vanquished a ban on dance bars in the city of Mumbai, gave permission to hundreds of premises to reopen which employed women to dance as well as hold the attention of pleasantly customers.

The ruling upheld a 2006 judgement by the Bombay High Court, which said the ban instituted by the Maharashtra state government a year earlier violated the constitutional right to earn a living. The decision comes in the middle of responsibility over moral policing in Mumbai, India's financial capital and the home of Bollywood, where police in recent years have enforced a series of strict regulations. The regulations were inclusive of early closing hours for nightclubs, excessive red tape, outdated rules on overcrowding and an increase in the minimum age limit to buy beer from 18 to 21.

(AW:Samrat Biswas)