Petitioner Suseela was convicted in C.C. No. 16734 of 1978 by the learned XVIII Metropolitan Magistrate, Madras, for an offence under S. 3(1) of the Suppression of Immoral Traffic in woman and Girla Act, 1956, and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for one year and to pay a fine of Rs. 300/- in default to suffer rigorous imprisonment for three months

2. Against her conviction and sentence, she filed an appeal, C.A. No. 498 of 1979 before the learned Sessions Judge, Madras, The appeal was dismissed and the conviction and sentence were confirmed

3. The instant revision case is filed by the petitioner challenging the correctness of the conviction and sentence passed against her by the lower appellate Court

4. The case against the petitioner was that on 25-10-1978 at about 12-30 p.m. she was running a brothel in the upstairs portion of Door No. 20, II Lane, Puliyur, Trustpuram, Kodambakkam, Madras, with the assistance of the other two accused girls, Manjula and Lakshmi. A2 Manjula carried on prostitution in the said premises and A-3 Lakshmi solicited the witness, Kumar, for prostitution in the said premises. The premises is situate at a distance of 50 yards from a Nurse