Judgment

KAPUR, J. : This is an appeal against the judgment and order of the High Court of Bombay setting aside the order of acquittal of the appellant and sentencing her to one year s rigorous imprisonment and evicting her from the premises which she was occupying as a tenant.

2. The appellant was tried by the Additional Chief Presidency Magistrate, Esplanade, Bombay, for offences under Ss. 3 (2) and 4 (1) of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in Women and Girls Act (Act 104 of 1956) hereinafter called the Act . The charge against the appellant was that she supplied a girl to Manmohan Anandji Mehta who is a witness and she kept or managed a brothel at block No. 6, plot No. 144, Shivaji Park, Bombay; that she knowingly lived on the earnings of prostitution and that she procured women for the purpose of prostitution. The story of the prosecution was that information was received by Police Superintendent Kanga that the premises were being used as a brothel and that the appellant was supplying girls for the purpose of prostitution. He thereupon laid a trap and sent two persons, Manmohan Anandji Mehta and Prabhakar K. Loke, the former was to ask for a girl for the purpose of prostitutio