Sale of drug as a different drug or preparation
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Summary
Knowingly selling, offering, exposing for sale, or issuing from a dispensary a drug while representing it as a different drug or medical preparation is an offence. It applies when a seller or dispensary intentionally misrepresents what the medicine is. Penalty: jail up to six months, or a fine up to one thousand rupees, or both.
Example
Priya runs a dispensary and gives a customer a bottle of cough syrup while saying it is an antibiotic. Under this section she can face up to six months imprisonment, a fine up to one thousand rupees, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever knowingly sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or issues from a dispensary for medicinal purposes, any drug or medical preparation, as a different drug or medical preparation, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
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