Lucknow: Hookah bar at coaching centre, 7 held

LUCKNOW: Police personnel on Sunday raided a coaching institute in Indiranagar on the complaint of a girl and found a hookah bar running in its basement.
The girl had claimed that she had fainted outside the coaching institute after she experienced foul smell.
The owner-cum-operator, Romit Srivastava of Sushant Golf City, Aviral Verma of Talkatora and Amit Verma of Madiaon, who claimed themselves to be teachers, failed to produce the licence for a hookah bar.
Ritesh Sharma of Jankipuram, Shantanu Singh of Sultanpur, Hemant Kumar Maurya of Gudamba, Lavkush of Aliganj, who claimed that they were students, were also found at the spot.
All of them were arrested.
"We were tipped off by an informer that a hookah bar was running in the area," said SHO, Indiranagar (Ghazipur), Manoj Mishra.
"The accused were running a hookah bar in the basement of their coaching institute. We found the smell of ingredients used in hookah and entered the basement. We found youths smoking hookah there," said Mishra.