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Section 52. Penalty for fraud by licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant

The Tripura Excise Act, 1987

Act no. 12 of 19871987In forceTripura (State Act)

52. Penalty for fraud by licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant :- If any licensed manufacturer or licensed vendor, or any person employed by him and acting on his behalf, (a) sells or kepts or exposes for sale, as foreign liquor, any liquor which he knows or has reason to believe to be country liquor, and such sale does not amount to an offence punishable under section 417 or section 418 of the Indian penal code, or (b) marks any bottle, case, package or other receptacle containing country liquor, or the cork of any such bottle, or deals with any bottle, case, package or other receptacle containing country liquor, with the intention of causing it to be believed that such bottle, case, package or other receptacle contains foreign liquor, and such amrking or dealing does not amount to an offence punishable under section 482 of the said Indian Penal Code, he shall be liable to imprisonment for a term which may extend to eighteen months or, 1 to fine of not less than ten thousand rupees which may extend to fifty thousand rupees or to both.