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Saturday, Jul 10, 2004

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Dance party gets go-ahead

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, JULY 9. After some confusion over necessary permission, organisers of the world's longest dance party at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium's "bajri" ground in South Delhi were allowed to go ahead with the event by the police with some restrictions today.

Initially, the programme was to start at 2-30 p.m. However, the South Delhi police, while making all precautionary arrangements as people had started gathering at the venue, did not formally give permission on two counts. They told the organisers that the police should have been informed well in advance so that adequate and proper arrangements were made for the party which was expected to attract young men and women over the next two days.

Another point on which the police refused to give permission was over the issue of playing of non-stop music through the night. "If the organisers promise that the noise generated would not affect the residents in the nearby areas we could have allowed them to play the music for the entire night. But we did not want to take the risk," said a senior police officer. For their part, the organisers have agreed to stop the music at the time stipulated by the Supreme Court and resume it the next morning. The event, therefore, may no longer be non-stop as it was originally planned to be.

After some negotiations, the police allowed the event to start around 5-30 p.m.

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