According to the proviso to Section 15(2) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, the…
The section 15(2) proviso dispenses with locality for a woman required to witness the search, while retaining the respectable-inhabitant framework and the requirement of at…
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According to the proviso to Section 15(2) of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956, the requirement that witnesses must be from the locality does not apply to:
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Correct answer B
The section 15(2) proviso dispenses with locality for a woman required to witness the search, while retaining the respectable-inhabitant framework and the requirement of at least one woman among two or more witnesses. It does not create a general locality exception for all men, officers or night searches merely by those descriptions.