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Chandigarh, April 13
The UT Administration has extended the ban on hookah bars in the city for period of two months.
In an order issued today, District Magistrate Anindita Mitra stated that hookah bars are operational in Chandigarh in a clandestine way. They serve flavoured hookahs, including tobacco molasses containing nicotine which was highly injurious to health of people, and at times, there was a suspicion that apart from tobacco, other harmful narcotic chemicals were also mixed with tobacco molasses served in these hookah bars.
Any person violating the order shall be punished under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code.
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