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Closure of brothel and eviction of offenders from the premises.—(1) A magistrate may, on receipt of information from the police or otherwise, that any house, room, place or any portion thereof within a distance of 5[two hundred metres] 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