ORDER :

1. This petition is filed by the petitoner-A3 under Section 482 Cr.P.C. to quash the proceedings in S.C. No.80 of 2017 on the file of I-Assistant Sessions Judge, Ranga Reddy District at L.B. Nagar.

2. The case of the prosecution in brief was that on 01.06.2016 at 5.00 PM, the Inspector of Police, Uppal, conducted raid on Flat No.201, Rajya Laxmi Apartments, Sharada Nagar, Ramanathapur, Uppal, Ranga Reddy District and found 3 male and 2 female persons indulging in prostitution and caught them red-handedly. On interrogation, A1 confessed that he had done BAMS & BPT and started the massage centre at the above flat, but as he failed to earn profits, started prostitution business to earn easy money with the help of the women and was conducting brothel house in the name of massage centre. Basing on the above confession, police brought A1 and the other two customers and registered a suo motu case in Crime No.429 of 2016 for the offences under Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act,1956 (for short ‘the Act’) and Sections 370 and 371-A IPC. During the course of investigation, police arrested A1 and A2 and served notice under Section 41-A Cr.P.C. to A3.

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