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Mumbai Bar Girl Quizzed
From Nithin Belle (Our correspondent)
MUMBAI Popular dancer Tarannum Khan (Tannu), who had charmed several celebrities including a Sri Lankan cricketer and Bollywood actors, was yesterday quizzed by the Mumbai police about her alleged link to bookies.
Tannu was one of two dancers who had been raided by Income-Tax officials earlier in the month. The officials had seized over Rs2 million in cash, besides a million worth of jewellery from her posh bungalow in a Mumbai suburb. However, her bank locker did not result in any major finds.
A popular dancer at the Deepa Bar in Irla in north-west Mumbai, Tannu had amassed an enviable asset base (which included a bungalow), as many of her patrons had showered her with cash, and also gifted her valuables. According to police sources yesterday, Tannu was being quizzed for her alleged links to bookies. Some top bookies were among her favourite clients at the dancebar, and there is speculation that her 'fans' included several actors and cricketers. But Tannu's tips to her other clients on cricket matches appeared to have been worthless, and many of them are said to have lost millions of rupees in bets.
Income-tax sleuths had come across telephone numbers of many bookies during their raid on the dancer's bungalow, and had passed them on to Mumbai police. Bookies were among major spenders at dancebars, showering hundreds of thousands of rupees on their favourite dancers over a few hours on a given evening.
Tannu was among the few hundred dancers out of an estimated 100,000 at the 1,000-odd bars in Mumbai alone who used to earn millions.
Many of the dancers have started returning to their hometowns in north and east
Three dancers, who were desperate for money, killed themselves last week in separate incidents. Dancebar owners in Mumbai have challenged the government law banning their functioning, and the matter is expected to come up in the Bombay High Court later this month.
Irfan
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