By Damien Gayle PUBLISHED: 09:57 EST, 16 April 2013 | UPDATED: 09:57 EST, 16 April 2013 India is going to have to wait a little longer for its first Playboy bunnies after authorities stopped promoters opening the country's first Playboy club. The government in Goa has, after a month of heated debate, refused permission for the club which had been planned to open in a 22,000 sq/ft open-air site on upmarket Candolim beach. Women's groups and conservative politicians had attacked the proposed club, with Michael Lobo, a legislator from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party saying it was 'tantamount to promoting prostitution.'
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Club had been planned for open-air site on the upmarket Candolim beach
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But plan was attacked by women's groups and conservative politicians
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@placeholder's decision does not bar the opening of a conventional Playboy club in in the state, just the beach shack.
But Mr Lobo has called on the government to prevent @placeholder from setting up shop in any form in the state.