customers in the
restaurants. In some restaurants, the “cabaret
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dance” and “discotheque” are also performed to
attract the customers.
5) The facility of “Live ... restaurants providing the facility
of displaying “Live Band Music”, “cabaret dance”
and “discotheque” in the restaurants. The details of
the Order 2005 would be mentioned
settlement, it was finally decided that the respondents would sell their discotheque business for a consideration of Rs. 1,50,00,000/- (Rupees One crore ... good all the dues payable to the group companies by running the discotheque business; that an agreement was entered into between the applicant
clubs and discotheques sited in
the backyards of SCO(s) located in Sector 7 and 26, Chandigarh.
1.2 With the consent of learned counsel ... counsel for the Resident
Welfare Association has submitted that these clubs and discotheques are
violating the noise pollution norms laid down by the Union Territory
arises in this writ petition is this: Is the proprietor of a discotheque liable to pay duty under the provisions of the Bombay Entertainment Duty ... hotel a club called "The Cellar". The club is a discotheque where music is piped and a dance floor is provided for those
respondent-defendant from using the disputed premises for the purpose
of discotheque. Along with the suit, an application for ad interim
injunction was also filed ... Learned lower Appellate Court came to
the positive finding that the discotheque was not running
with the consent of the plaintiff from the date
Oberoi Maidens. In both the hotels at the relevant stage of time discotheques were being run under the name and style of `Tabela ... cover charges/fixed fee imposed in respect of the entry into the discotheques.
2.The entertainment tax is sought to be charged under the provisions
excise, NDMC etc., therefore the
necessary license for running a Discotheque from the demised premises was
obtained from police authorities in April ... 2013 Page no. 3 of 13
for the use as a DISCOTHEQUE against the purpose and objective of the
license deed. The respondent took
supposed to grant licence for the place for which a licence for
Discotheque or Orchestra have been granted. Exact language of this
sub-section ... contained in the Maharashtra
Police Act , no licence shall be granted for Discotheque or
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Orchestra, in the place for which the licence under this
word "disco" is the clipped form of the word "discotheque" and has popularly been used to refer to anything connscted with ... discotheque.
15. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, (1967) Edition defines 'disco' as follows :
"disc -- or disci -- or disco -- combining form
court had held that
payment of admission to a discotheque will be subject to
entertainment tax, since both the groups - those who are dancing ... This ruling is in the context of two hotels where discotheque were
being run and the issue is regarding payment made by a person
