ORDER :

This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed seeking quash of charge-sheet in P.R.C.No.8 of 2021 on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the 1st respondent State.

3. The petitioner is accused No.4 in P.R.C.No.8 of 2021 on the file of the IV Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Visakhapatnam. The said charge-sheet was filed against him along with other accused for the offences punishable under Sections 370-A(2) of IPC and under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, on the ground that when the police raided the brothel house that the petitioner was present in the brothel house and he is the customer, who visited the said premises to have sexual pleasure with a prostitute on payment of cash to her. That is the only prime allegation against the petitioner herein, who is accused No.4.

4. The petitioner sought quash of the said charge-sheet that was filed against him primarily on the ground that no prosecution for the offences under Section 370-A(2) of IPC or under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Immoral Traffic (Pre