India, Dec. 4 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday stayed the trial against stand-up comedian and Bigg Boss 17 winner Munawar Faruqui, who was booked for allegedly smoking a tobacco-based hookah at a parlour in the Fort area.

Faruqui was detained along with 13 others after the police raided a hookah bar in Bora Bazar in March last year, acting on a tip-off that customers were using tobacco hookahs while claiming to smoke herbal variants. An FIR was later registered and the case transferred to the Enforcement Unit for investigation. He and the others were booked under provisions of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) and Indian Penal Code sections 283 (obstruction in a public way) and 336 (endangering life or personal saf...