Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 265 · Decided 10 October 1975
Chitan J. Vaswani & ANR. v. State of West Bengal & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 265 · [1976] 2 S.C.R. 300
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 300/1975
- Decided
- 10 October 1975
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, A.C. GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Suppression of lmmoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act (104 of 1956) ss. 3. 7 and 18-Conviction under ss. J and 7-Power of Magistrate to order evictio111 of keeper or occupier. \ The appellants were keepers of a public place namely, a bar. They were- a. convicted under s. 3(1) of the Suppression of for keeping or managing a brothel in the bar, and under s. 7(2){a) for knowingly permitting prostitutes for the purpose of their trade to Jo, resort to or remain in the bar. There was also a direction under s. 18 (I) read! with s. 18(2) of the Act evicting the appellants from the bar. It was
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