MADURAI: The Madurai bench of Madras High Court on Wednesday directed officials to monitor proceedings of the ongoing Dasara festival at Kulasekarapattinam in Thoothukudi district and submit a report of evidence of any obscene and vulgar dance performances or double-meaning songs played as part of cultural entertainment.

B. Ramkumar Adityan, from Tiruchendur, in his public interest litigation petition, stated that, as per tradition, the Dasara groups perform folk music and dance. Later, some of these groups began hiring cinema actors and bar dancers to perform dances in the streets to raise more money. “Now it has become fashionable, with a lot of Dasara groups having started to hire TV serial, cinema actors and bar dancers for the same. These hired dancers abstain from Viradham, dance t

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