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New fire audit ordered for restaurants, bars BMC chief Ajoy Mehta issued directions after Mirror reported that licence records of over 40 hospitality businesses had disappeared.

The government has banned allin the state from Thursday. The notification, released by the, was issued aftergave his assent to a bill passed by both houses of thein April.The bill was passed in the aftermath of the fire atwhich killed 14 people in December last year. The amended Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products (Prohibition of Advertisement and Regulation of Trade and Commerce, Production, Supply and Distribution) Act (), 2003, imposes a fine of Rs 1 lakh and prescribes imprisonment of up to three years for violatons.Gujarat was the first state in India to implement such a ban.