https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196650 Section 18 of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956 was treated as a preventive, premises-focused measure rather than a penal prosecution, so the classification between proceedings under the penal provisions and proceedings under section 18 was held to have a rational relation to the Act's object and was not hit by Article 14. Where the material before the Magistrate disclosed a cognizable offence under section 3, however, the Magistrate was required first to proceed under the penal provision and could resort to section 18 only afterwards if occasion still remained. The preventive power could not be used to bypass cognizable penal proceedings. en-us Wed, 16 Aug 1967 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 11 Dec 2017 14:07:12 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196650 Section 18 of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act, 1956 was treated as a preventive, premises-focused measure rather than a penal prosecution, so the classification between proceedings under the penal provisions and proceedings under section 18 was held to have a rational relation to the Act's object and was not hit by Article 14. Where the material before the Magistrate disclosed a cognizable offence under section 3, however, the Magistrate was required first to proceed under the penal provision and could resort to section 18 only afterwards if occasion still remained. The preventive power could not be used to bypass cognizable penal proceedings. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 16 Aug 1967 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196650