Section 445(1) in Uttar Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act, 1959
(1)When a Magistrate of the first class receives information -(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(b)that any house is used as aforesaid to the annoyance of respectable inhabitants in the vicinity, or(c)that a house in the immediate neighbourhood 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:Provided that action under this sub-section shall be taken only -(i)with the sanction or by the order of the District Magistrate, or(ii)on the complaint of three or more persons residing in the immediate vicinity of the house to which the complaint refers, or(iii)on the complaint of the Corporation.
