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Penalties - (1) Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or fails to comply with any direction made under authority conferred by this Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years or with both. (2) A Court convicting any person of an offence punishable under this Act may order that the whole or any part of the stock of drugs in respect of which the offence was committed, shall be forfeited to the Government. (3) It shall be a defence for a person charged with a contravention of any of the provisions of this section to prove that in relation to the matter in respect of which he is charged, he acted in the course of his employment as a servant or agent of another person on the instructions of his employer or of some other specified person. CASE LAW: The accused person exposed drug for sale without making sale price. In such case where no evidence was led to indicate that accused had the criminal intention to violate the provisions of the Act, he cannot be convicted under Section 13 (1) of the Act: AIR 1952 Ori. 214.