Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
Section 16: Rescue of person
[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 [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 [person] and produce him before him.
(2) The police officer, after removing the [person], shall forthwith produce him before the magistrate issuing the order.]
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