Stand-up comedian and reality TV star Munawar Faruqui was among 14 people detained during a raid at a hookah parlour in Mumbai, police said on Wednesday.
The Big Boss 17 winner had a party in a hookah parlour, news agency ANI said quoting a Mumbai police official.
According to police, the hookah parlour in the city’s Fort area was being run illegally police seized all hookah pots during the raid on Tuesday.
A case has been registered under sections of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act. The police are still conducting a search at the location. where illegal hookah bar are running
“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 told news agency PTI.
He first made headlines in 2021 when he spent a month in jail after complaints were filed against him for hurting religious sentiments after he made remarks on Hindu deities during a stand-up show.
In 2022, Mr. Faruqui made a comeback through the reality TV show “Lock Up”, where participants lived in a “jail” and performed tasks to earn money as “inmates”. He won the show’s first season.
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