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where the person guilty of an offence under this Act is a company' every Director, Manager, secretary and other officer thereof wlto is t<nowingJJ a party _to the default shall also be guilty of the oltence and liable to punishment. . rg- (.{) rvo prosecution under this Act shall be institr.rted except !y o-t with the previous sanction of the District Magistrate or tfie Magi_strate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the State Government tU HARYANA GOVT GA4, {ETTR*{')' DEC. 28' 1993 {PAUSA ?,1915 SAr(A) 155 I I ; tr { e il l- ept the by {2) No offence punishable under this Aet ttplJ fq h.ied by any ,:c-_,i inferior to ttrit of a Judicial Magistrate of the first elass. !;ptanotron.-(u) In this sub-section "culpable menta_l state" includes int'ention, motive, knowledge of fact and the believe in' or reason to believe, a fact, {b) For the purpose of this sub-section, a fact is. said to be proved only rvhen the court believe it io exist beyond reasonable doubt and not merely when its existence . is established by a preponderance of probability'