I strongly condemn this police action and high-handedness Dj Jenny D

DJ Jenny D and other members of the gay community have joined hands to protest against the police action and high-handedness during a raid on a private party at Juhu in suburban Mumbai.

The party and incident which has subsequently come to be known as ''The Juhu Gay Party" was attended by television personalities and others like Bobby darling. Eye witnesses said that the police were very rude to persons perceived to be gay or transgenders and treated them with utmost contempt, besides abusing them in the choicest vulgar and cuss words in Marathi and Hindi. "Those who were perceived to be gay were treated very rudely and inhumanely by the police as though they were murderers or rapists," said Rajesh Singh one of the persons present at the party.

Last week the police arrested and detained about 133 party goers because the venue of the party - a bungalow in the posh Juhu area did not have all the required licenses. The organisers of the party were also arrested by the police for serving liquor without obtaining the requisite licenses.

Said Dj Jenny D, "I strongly condemn this police action and high-handedness. They police should have only arrested the organisers of the party if they did not have the license to serve liquor or play DJ music. But detaining and fining 133 guests is illegal. If you go for a wedding or a Navratri dandiya function and the music is a bit loud you don't arrest or fine all the guests, you only fine the organisers.

Here the guests were fined for dirty dancing! How do the police define dirty dancing? A similar incident had happened two months ago at a pub at Malad in suburban Mumbai where I was playing as a DJ. The club had all the licenses but the DJ license had recently expired and the renewal was pending with the police department.

 Most of the guests were not even dancing and some of them hadn't even consumed liquor. Yet all of them were detained and fined by the police. This moral policing must be immediately stopped. Besides the police were treating gays like they were criminals or had committed a felony."