Essential Commodities Act, 1955
8. Attempts and Abetment
Any person who attempts to contravene, or
abets contravention of any order made under section 3 shall be deemed to have
contravene that order:
[ 60 PROVIDED that where a person has abetted
the contravention of any order for the purpose of procuring any essential
commodity of the nature mentioned in sub-clause ( iva )
or sub-clause (v) of clause (a) of section 2 for his own use or for the use of
any member of his family or for the use of any person dependent on him, and not
for the purpose of carrying on any business or trade in such essential
commodity, the court may notwithstanding anything contained in section 7 and for
reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of fine only. 60 ]