earnings of prostitution and every person who in any place solicits or
importunes for immoral purposes commits an offence and is liable to
imprisonment for seven years.
(2) Where a person is proved to live with or to be habitually in the
company of a prostitute or is proved to have exercised control, direction or
influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to show
that he or she is aiding, abetting or compelling his or her prostitution with
any other person, or generally, that person shall, unless he or she shall satisfy
the court to the contrary, be deemed to be knowingly living on the earnings
of prostitution.
137. Brothels.
Any person who keeps a house, room, set of rooms or place of any kind for
purposes of prostitution commits an offence and is liable to imprisonment for
seven years.
138. Definition of prostitute and prostitution.
In this Code, “prostitute” means a person who, in public or elsewhere,
regularly or habitually holds himself or herself out as available for sexual
intercourse or other sexual gratification for monetary or other material gain,
and “prostitution” shall be construed accordingly.
139. Prohibition of prostitution.
Any person who practises or engages in prostitution commits an offence and
is liable to imprisonment for seven years.
140. Conspiracy to defile.
Any person who conspires with another to induce any woman or girl, by
means of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, to permit any man to
have unlawful carnal knowledge of her commits a felony and is liable to
imprisonment for three years.
141. Attempts to procure abortion.
Any person who, with intent to procure the miscarriage of a woman whether
she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take
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