Man held for providing on-demand hookah services in Hyderabad

A man was arrested for allegedly providing illegal hookah services to private customers in a raid by the Central Task Force and Khairtabad police on Friday, September 27. The state currently has a ban on hookah bars.

The accused has been identified as Raju Nagaraju, 29, a native of the Trichy district of Tamil Nadu, residing in Maruthi Nagar, Khairtabad. He was arrested from his residence.

Raju earlier worked in a hookah parlour in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad. Since the state banned hookah parlours he had been providing private hookah services to customers

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