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CHAPTER-VI OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

Section 44: Penalty for fraud by licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant

The Himachal Pradesh Excise Act, 2011

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Authoritative English text as published by India Code for the Government of Himachal Pradesh, with amendments up to H.P. Act No. 10 of 2024, in force from 1 April 2025.

If any licensed manufacturer or licensed vendor or any person in his employ or acting on his behalf-

(a) sells, or keeps, or exposes for sale as foreign liquor any liquor which he knows or has reason to believe to have been manufactured from rectified spirit or country liquor; or

(b) marks any bottle, case, package or other receptacle containing liquor so manufactured from rectified spirit or country liquor, or other receptacle containing such liquor with the intention of causing it to be believed that such bottle, case, package, or other receptacle contains foreign liquor,

he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term 1[of one year and with fine of fifty thousand rupees.]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.The words “which may extend to one year and with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees” substituted vide H.P. Act No. 10 of 2024.