law: Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 
  18. Closure of brothels and eviction of offenders from the
  
  premise 
  (1) A magistrate may, on receipt of information from the police
  
  or otherwise, that any house, room, place or any portion there of within a
  
  distance of 53[two hundred meters] of any public place referred to
  
  in sub-section (1) of section 7, is being run or used as a brothel by any
  
  person, or is being used by prostitutes for carrying on their trade, issue
  
  notice on the owner, lessor or landlord of such
  
  house, room, place or portion or the agent of the owner, lessor 
  
  or landlord or on the tenant, lessee, occupier of, or any other person in
  
  charge of such house, room, place or portion, to show cause within seven days
  
  of the receipt of the notice why the same should not be attached for improper
  
  user thereof; and if, after hearing the person concerned, the magistrate is
  
  satisfied that the house, room, place, or portion is being used as a brothel or
  
  for carrying on prostitution, then the magistrate may pass orders- 
  (a) directing eviction of the occupier within seven
  
  days of the passing of the order from the house, room, place or portion ;
  (b) directing that before letting it out
  
  during the period of one year 54[, or in a case where a child or
  
  minor has been found in such house, room, place or portion during a search
  
  under section 15, during the period of three years,] immediately after the
  
  passing of the order, the owner, lessor or landlord
  
  or the agent of the owner, lessor or landlord shall
  
  obtain the previous approval of the magistrate :
  Provided  that, if the magistrate finds that the owner,
  
   lessor or landlord as well as the agent of the owner,
  
   lessor or landlord, was innocent of the improper user
  
  of the house, room, place or portion, he may cause the same to be restored to
  
  the owner, lessor or landlord, or the agent of the
  
  owner, lessor or landlord, with a direction that the
  
  house, room, place or portion shall not be leased out, or otherwise given
  
  possession of, to or for the benefit of the person who was allowing the
  
  improper user therein.
  (2) A court convicting a person of any offence under section 3
  
  or section 7 may pass order under sub-section (1) without further notice to
  
  such person to show cause as required in that sub-section.
  (3) Orders passed by the magistrate or court under sub-section
  
  (1) or sub-section (2) shall not be subject to appeal and shall not be stayed
  
  or set aside by the order of any court, civil or criminal, and the said orders
  
  shall cease to have validity after the 55[expiry of one year, or
  
  three years, as the case may be]:
  Provided  that where a conviction under section 3 or
  
  section 7 is set aside on appeal on the ground that such house, room, place or
  
  any portion thereof is not being run or used as a brothel or is not being used
  
  by prostitutes for carrying on their trade, any order passed by the trial court
  
  under sub-section (1) shall also be set aside.
  (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the
  
  time being in force, when a magistrate passes an order under sub-section (1),
  
  or a court passes an order under sub-section (2), any lease or agreement under
  
  which the house, room, place or portion is occupied at the time shall become
  
  void and inoperative.
  (5) When an owner, lessor or landlord,
  
  or the agent of such owner, lessor or landlord fails
  
  to comply with a direction given under clause (b) of sub-section (1) he shall
  
  be punishable with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees or when he
  
  fails to comply with a direction under the proviso to that sub-section, he
  
  shall be deemed to have committed an offence under clause (b)of
  
  sub-section (2) of section 3 or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 7, as
  
  the case may be, and punished accordingly.