Making or selling false weight or measure
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Summary
Making, selling, or otherwise supplying any weight, measure, or weighing instrument that you know is false, with the intention that it be used as true or knowing it is likely to be used as true, is an offence. It applies whether you make it, sell it, or dispose of it. Penalty: up to one year imprisonment, or fine, or both.
Example
Ravi runs a roadside spice stall and knowingly shortens a brass weight so customers get less. He sells that weight to another vendor who uses it as correct. Under this section Ravi can be punished with up to one year imprisonment, or a fine, or both.
Bare Act
Enacted textWhoever makes, sells or disposes of any instrument for weighing, or any weight, or any measure of length or capacity which he knows to be false, in order that the same may be used as true, or knowing that the same is likely to be used as true, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both.
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