law: Dramatic Performances Act, 1876
  7. Power to call for information
  For the purpose of ascertaining the character
  
  of any intended public dramatic performance, the State Government, or such
  
  officer as it may specially empower in this behalf, may apply to the author,
  
  proprietor or printer of the drama about to be performed, or to the owner or
  
  occupier of the place in which it is intended to be performed, for such
  
  information as the State Government or such officer thinks necessary.
  Every person so applied to shall be bound to
  
  furnish the same to the best of his ability, and whoever contravenes this
  
  section shall be deemed to have committed an offence under section 176 of the
  
  Indian Penal Code.