Section 16. Rescue of person.

1[16. Rescue of 2[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 3[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 2[person] and produce him before him. (2) The police officer, after removing the 2[person], shall forthwith produce him before the magistrate issuing the order.]