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Any person who detains any other person in any brothel, or in or upon any premises, for the purpose of prostitution, shall be liable to be punished with - imprisonment for not less than 7 years but upto for life; or a. imprisonment upto 10 years and also fine. b. Presumption created by sub-sections (2), (2A) and (3)shall be rebuttable. Sub-section (4) affords protection to such a woman or girl as has been mentioned therein against any suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding. Prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places. 1[(1) Any 2[person], who carries on prostitution and the person with whom such prostitution is carried on, in any premises,- which are within the area or areas, notified under sub-section (3), or a. which are within a distance of two hundred metres of any place of public religious b.