law: Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 
  16. Rescue of person 
  
  (1) Where a magistrate has reason to believe from information
  
  received from the police or from any other person authorized by the State
  
  Government in this behalf or otherwise, that 49[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 there from such 23[person] and
  
  produce him before him.
  (2) The police officer, after removing the 23[person],
  
  shall forthwith produce him before the magistrate issuing the order.