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 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.]