Why your neighbourhood paan shop in Maharashtra was probably shut on Tuesday | Mumbai News
4 min readJul 15, 2026 03:13 PM IST Pan shops across Maharashtra remained shut on Tuesday as traders observed a statewide bandh to protest what they alleged was the indiscriminate use of stringent criminal laws against small retailers. More than 1,000 pan shop owners and workers gathered at Mumbai’s Azad Maidan before submitting their demands…