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CHAPTER IX Offences and Penalties

Section 63: Penalty for fraud by Licensed manufacturer or vendor or his servant

The Rajasthan Excise Act, 1950

How current this text is

Text as published by India Code for the Government of Rajasthan, with amendments up to Rajasthan Act No. 14 of 2014; it also shows section 28-A (surcharge for mitigating natural or manmade calamities), added in 2020.

Section 25 is not printed in this copy; section 24 is followed by section 26.

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

(a) sell 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 manufactured from rectified spirit or country liquor or cork of any such bottle 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 which may extend to three months 1[and with fine] which may extend to five hundred rupees. 1[x x x x]

Footnotes in the official text

  1. 1.Substituted vide Rajasthan Act No. 41 of 1956.

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