70. Penalty for misconduct by licensed vendor or manufacturer.
Whoever, being the holder of a licence for the sale or manufacture of any intoxicant under this Act, or person in the employ of such holder or acting with the express or implied permission on his behalf,—(a)mixes or permits to be mixed with the said intoxicant any noxious drug or any foreign ingredient likely to add to the actual or apparent intoxicating quality or strength, or any article prohibited by any rule made under this Act, or water except for the purpose of reducing liquor to the strength prescribed in the licence, or any diluting or colouring substance or any ingredient whatsoever likely to render the intoxicant inferior in quality, whether such ingredient is or is not prohibited as aforesaid, when such admixture shall not amount to the offence of adulteration under section 272 of the Indian Penal Code, or(b)sells or keeps or exposes for sale as foreign liquor, liquor which he knows or has reason to believe, to be country liquor, or(c)marks the cork of any bottle or any bottle, case, package, or other receptacle containing country liquor, or uses any bottle, case, package or other receptacle containing country liquor with any mark thereon or on the cork thereof with the intention of causing it to be believed that such bottle, case or package or other receptacle contains foreign liquor when such act shall not amount to an offence of using a false trade mark with intent to deceive or injure any person under section 482 of the Indian Penal Code, or(d)sells or exposes for sale any country liquor in any bottle, case, or package or other receptacle with any mark thereon or on the cork thereof with intention of causing it to be believed that such bottle, case, package or other receptacle contains foreign liquor, when such act shall not amount to the offence of selling goods marked with counterfeit trade mark under section 486 of the Indian Penal Code, or(e)sells any intoxicant which is not of the nature, substance and quality demanded by the purchaser or keeps or exposes for sale any intoxicant which is not of the nature, substance and quality authorised by the terms of the licence to be kept for sale by the holder of the licence,-shall, on conviction, be punished for each offence with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees.
