Click to play videoBangalore: A group of 20 eunuchs gathered at the city's Cubbon Park to demand that live bands in the city be allowed to operate freely.
Live bands shut shop in 2005 after a police notification asked them to fulfill 12 conditions on safety and security to get a license. Though that notification applied to discotheques as well, the police apparently only cracked down on live bands because they are alleged to be fronts for prostitution.
Live band operators are, in turn, now targeting discos.
Says President, Karnataka Live Band Restaurants' Association, Sanjay Kochhar, “If even one disco gets a pass, our life will improve. If they give even one disco a license, we'll try ours from court, automatically. I challenge anybody and I'll get it out of Supreme Court
The protest comes barely 15 days after a High Court order asking the city police to consider their applications to function.
The 100 live bands that operate in the city say they can't satisfy the conditions put by the police for obtaining a license.
That's why they're now dragging discotheques into the debate. Bangaloreans, however, are not impressed.
“I think dance bars shouldn't affect anything else. Dance bars are a bad thing but discotheques are an enjoyment for people,” says one.
Agrees another, “It’s a source of releasing stress - one form of recreation facility.”
Police are considering whether there should be different kind of licensing norms for discotheques and live bands. But their hands are tied now because this 2005 notification itself has been challenged in the Supreme Court and they can't change it until the case is disposed off.
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