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Penalty for adulteration, etc., by licensed vendor or manufacturer 1[or any other person]1.- (1) Whoever, being the holder of a licence for the sale or manufacture of any intoxicant under this Act, or a person in the employ of such holder 1[or any other person]1 mixes or permits to be mixed with the intoxicant sold or manufactured by him, any noxious drug or any foreign ingredient likely to add to its actual or apparent intoxicating quality or strength, or any article prohibited by any rule made under this Act, when such admixture does not amount to an offence of adulteration under section 272 of the Indian Penal Code, shall, on conviction Excise [1966: KAR. ACT 21 392 be punished with imprisonment for a term 2[three years and with a fine which shall not be less than ten thousand rupees and not more than fifty thousand rupees.]2