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THE IMMORAL TRAFFIC (PREVENTION) ACT, 1956

Section 16 — Rescue of person

(1)Where a magistrate has reason to believe from information received from the police or from any other person authorised by the State Government in this behalf or otherwise, that 6[any person is living, or is carrying on, or is being made to carry on, prostitution in a brothel,] he may direct a police officer not below the rank of a sub-inspector, to enter such brothel, and to remove therefrom such 3[person] and produce him before him.
(2)The police officer, after removing the 3[person], shall forthwith produce him before the magistrate issuing the order.]