Indian Penal Code, 1860
372. Selling minor for purposes of prostitution, etc.—
Whoever sells, lets to hire, or otherwise disposes of any person under ... shall at any age be employed or used for the purpose of prostitution or illicit intercourse with any person or for any unlawful and immoral
Procuring, inducing or taking woman or girl for the sake of prostitution.
(1) Any person who- (a) procures or attempts to procure a woman ... girl, whether with or without her consent, for the purpose of prostitution; or (b) induces a woman or girl to go from any place, with
Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
4. Punishment for living on the earnings of prostitution.
(1) Any person over the age of eighteen years who knowingly lives ... wholly or in part, on the earnings of the prostitution of a woman or girl shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which
Section 7 in The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
7. Prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places.
(1) Any woman or girl ... carries on prostitution, and the person with whom such prostitution is carried on, in any premises which are within a distance of two hundred yards
Prevention) Act, 1956
6. Detaining a woman or girl in premises where prostitution is carried on.
(1) Any person who detains any woman or girl
Indian Penal Code, 1860
373. Buying minor for purposes of prostitution, etc.—
Whoever buys, hires or otherwise obtains possession of any person under ... shall at any age be employed or used for the purpose of prostitution or illicit intercourse with any person or for any unlawful and immoral
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
8. Seducing or soliciting for purpose of prostitution.
- Whoever, in any public place or within sight of, and in such ... endeavours to attract the attention of, any person for the purpose of prostitution; or (b) solicits or molests any person, or loiters or acts
woman or girl, causes or aids or abets the seduction for prostitution of that woman or girl shall be punishable on first conviction with rigorous
carry on, or attempts are being made to make her carry on, prostitution. (5) The special police officer, after removing the girl under sub-section
Bibi, who was in her early years
leading a life of a Prostitute. Subsequently, she got married to Haji
Mohammed Siddiq. Thereafter, Zohra Bibi executed ... from out of the income earned by Smt.
Zohra Bibi as a prostitute and, therefore, the same could not be the
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