Section 3(a) in The Indian Power Alcohol Act, 1948
(a)" molasses" means the heavy, dark- coloured residual syrup drained away in the final stage of the manufacture of sugar by vacuum pans in sugar factories either from sugarcane or by refining gur, when such a syrup has fermentable sugars (expressed as reducing sugars), but does not include the final residual syrup left in the manufacture of sugar by the open pan process;
