<p class="title">Following raids on hookah bars in the city by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), corporator Purushottam alleged that authorities were hand-in-glove with the owners (of the illegal hookah bars). </p>.<p class="bodytext">He said, college students aged between 18-22 years, were found in hookah bars when they were raided near Highway Circle. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The illegal hookah shops were doing business openly without licenses or fear of the law. The hookah bars were making youth of the city addicted to drugs, the corporator alleged. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Purushottam demanded a thorough investigation into the illegal hookah bar menace and sought action against the officials who turned a blind eye to them. However, the city police claim that only a few of those hookah shops were illegal and now they are shut down.</p>
<p class="title">Following raids on hookah bars in the city by the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), corporator Purushottam alleged that authorities were hand-in-glove with the owners (of the illegal hookah bars). </p>.<p class="bodytext">He said, college students aged between 18-22 years, were found in hookah bars when they were raided near Highway Circle. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The illegal hookah shops were doing business openly without licenses or fear of the law. The hookah bars were making youth of the city addicted to drugs, the corporator alleged. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Purushottam demanded a thorough investigation into the illegal hookah bar menace and sought action against the officials who turned a blind eye to them. However, the city police claim that only a few of those hookah shops were illegal and now they are shut down.</p>