Raid at Mocha
The upmarket coffee pub Mocha in Khader Nawaz Khan Road, Nungambakkam, was on Sunday raided. Cops thought that the hookahs at the cafe had a “suspicous substance in them”. The cops, who arrived at the cafe at around 12.20 pm, checked the premises for nearly half an hour. Apart from the deputy commissioner, a team from the Thousand Lights police station too arrived at Mocha to conduct the raids, surprising the guests there.
The raid was conducted after the cops received a tip-off. However the police team found nothing suspicious inside the pub, sources added. After returning empty handed, a few cops preferred to play it safe by saying that they were checking due to a bomb hoax.
I don’t get it. You canot ‘raid’ private property unless you have a warrant. If there was a warrant, then the reasons are explicity mentioned in it. A copy of the warrant is given to the owner/resident/manager of the property. How can the cops change their version of things? Plus, I don’t think a magistrate can issue a warrant unless there is prima facie evidence. What was this ‘tip off’?
All very dodgy!
Nandu, do you have a link to the source of this piece of news?
if the story is not in tomorrow hindu, just give me a buzz.i promise to give a link. the cops also said, btw, that they wanted to check if the pub had proper papers.
anybody smoked this damn hookah?
Yeah.
My youngest kid, who is now trekking across Southern India been there couple of times and did say its a
trendy place. He huffed and puffed the hookah with
some local kids which had nothing but some tobacco. I am glad it didn’t have any ‘hookah express’ in it for a fast trip to Marakash.
But did say,
hey dad, its a trip on the wild side, the ride on the ‘putt putt’ that is..
grt. now we are the conservative city, no more!