Two employees of a city hotel were arrested for allegedly permitting "obscene" dance programmes in its premises and for running a bar without licence, police said on Wednesday. The employees - an Associate Manager, Food and Beverages and Front Office Manager - were arrested yesterday in connection with the incident and they were produced before a magistrate and remanded to 15-days judicial custody, police said. The two employees were booked under IPC 294 (obscene acts and songs in annoyance of others in a public place), section 37 of Tamil Nadu City Police Act (violation of licence conditions) and section 24 of Tamil Nadu Prohibition Licence Act, police said. Police said they acted after they received a complaint from a private trust. Photographs of the incident was also carried in a city newspaper. Meanwhile, the hotel, when contacted, said its legal department was "handling the matter". On the photographs appearing in a newspaper, the hotel said it was an "intrusion in the functioning of the hotels and the privacy of our customers". Incidentally, only last week South Indian Hotel and Restaurant Association had said that after several raids in some city hotels, the discos were closed at midnight. Though they had met a top police officer, to extend the time limit, they were told that it was a state government policy decision. The Association said in Mumbai and Bangalore discos were permitted to be kept open till 2 am and the Association had sought some relaxation to the rules.
| 
