Dunedin’s Eleven Bar liquor licence cancelled

Photo / ODTTwo directors of a Dunedin bar took a group of teenage women to a locked room full of middle-aged men who made unwanted sexual advances. The incident was cited as a “very real concern” by the hearing panel that has now cancelled Eleven Bar’s liquor licence. It was one of several incidents described in a decision released today by Dunedin’s District Licensing Committee that led to the Octagon bar losing its licence, “effective immediately”. The decision stated the bar’s two directors, Nikesh Singh and Naveen Malhotra, took a group of teenage women to the upstairs bar during trading hours. A staff member, while Singh was present, asked them to hand over their phones because the bar’s staff were breaching Covid-19 rules and did not want to be filmed.