Section 445: Brothels, etc.

5. (1) When a magistrate of the first class receives information —\br @s (a) that a house in the vicinity of a place of worship or an educational institution or a boarding house, hostel or mess used or occupied by students is used as a brothel or for the purpose of habitual prostitution or by disorderly persons of any description, or\br @s (b) that any house is used as aforesaid to the annoyance of respectable inhabitants in the vicinity, or\br @s (c) that a house in the immediate neighborhood of a Cantonment is used as a brothel or for the purpose of habitual prostitution, he may summon the owner, tenant, manager or occupier of the house to appear before him either in person or by agent ; and if satisfied that the house is used as described in clause (a), clause (b), or clause (c), may by a written order, direct such owner, tenant, manager, or occupier, within a period to be stated in such order, not less than five days from the date thereof, to discontinue such use :\br @s Provided that action under this sub-section shall be taken only—\br @s (i) with the sanction or by order of the District Magistrate, or\br @s (ii) on the complaint of three or more persons residing in the\br @s immediate vicinity of the house to which the complaint refers, or\br @s (iii) on the complaint of the 1Corporation ;\br @s (2) If a person against whom an order has been passed by a Magistrate under sub-section (1) fails to comply with such order within the period stated therein, the Magistrate may impose on him a fine which may extend to one hundred rupees for every day after the expiration of that period during which the house is so used.\br @s