73. Security for good behaviour from suspected persons, vagrants and persons, disseminating seditious matter

Whenever it appears to a Magistrate that -

any person is behaving in a suspicious manner and that there is reason to believe such person is behaving in such manner with a view to committing an offence;

any person has no ostensible means of subsistence or cannot give a satisfactory account of himself;

any person either orally or in writing disseminates or attempts to disseminate or in any way abets the dissemination of -

any seditious matter, that is, any matter the publication of which is punishable under the

any person has in his possession or custody any instrument which may be used for housebreaking or is armed with any lethal weapon and is unable to explain satisfactorily his movements or to account for the possession or custody of the housebreaking instruments or lethal weapon, such Magistrate may, in such manner as provided in section 75, require such person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond with sureties for his good behaiiour for such period not exceeding one year as the