Panchkula: Booze, hookah parties on at cafes at 1am

PANCHKULA: A post-midnight four-hour

raid

on Sunday at two hookah bars found parties going on,

Covid norms

tossed aside and customers smoking hookah and drinking booze. A team of CM flying squad and cops landed up at Coco Cafe in Sector 11 and

Purple Frog

in Sector 9 at 1am.


Hundreds of customers were in the cafes, said cops, who closed exit points and took details of youngsters smoking hookah. Police arrested owners Ashish and Gurkirtan, both from

Patiala

. Cops recovered 30

liquor

bottles and 132 beer bottles. Samples of hookah were sent to a forensic lab.

Siddharth Dhanda

, DSP, CM flying squad, said they had got a tip-off about late-night parties at cafes.