ORDER

This Petition is filed by the petitioner/Accused No.1 under Section 482 of Cr.P.C., for quashing the criminal proceedings in C.C.No.53647/2018 arising out of Crime No.232/2017 registered by Halasuru Police Station and charge sheeted for the offences punishable under Section 370 of IPC and Sections 3, 4, 5 and 7 of Immoral Traffic Prevention Act (in short 'ITP Act').

2. Heard arguments of learned counsel for the petitioner and learned High Court Government Pleader.

3. The case of the prosecution is that the Police Inspector, Halasuru Police Station got credible information on 29.06.2017 while he was on patrol that in a service apartment at S.N.Comfort, bearing No.442/462, situated at 6th Main, Amarajyothi Layout, Dommaluru Layout, Bengaluru, some persons were running Brothel in the house by bringing the girls from some other State. Immediately, he planned to conduct a raid and employed one Sri.Yallappa as decoy. After talking with this petitioner and paying money, the Police Inspector along with his staff, gave a signal to the Police in the apartment where the accused is said to be running a brothel house by bringing two to five girls from some other State and using them for pro