ORDER : 1. Heard. 2. Shri. Chandrashekara K., learned advocate for the petitioner submits that, police have conducted a raid on the brothel house and apprehended the petitioner. He has been charged for commission of offences punishable under Sections 3, 4, 5 and 7 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention Act), 1956 (‘the Act’ for short). Petitioner is customer and therefore, the said penal provisions of the Act are not attracted against him. 3. The submission of learned advocate for the petitioner is not disputed the learned HCGP. 4. This Court has taken a consistent view that the penal provisions of the Act are not applicable so far as customers in a brothel house are concerned. [See Narasimha Murthy vs. The State by Hennuru Police Station and another (Crl.P.No.5275/2017 D.D. 07.12.2017)]. 5. In the circumstances, following the said decision, the proceedings in C.C.No.1398/2010 on the file of the Metropolitan Magistrate Traffic Court, Mayohall Unit, Bangalore, are quashed, so far as the petitioner is concerned. The Petition is accordingly allowed. No costs.