Trade Marks Act, 1999
104. Penalty for selling goods or providing
services to which false trade mark or false trade description is applied .-
Any person who sells, lets for hire or exposes
for sale, or hires or has his possession for sale, goods or things, or provides
or hires services, to which any false trade mark or false trade description is
applied or which, being required under section 139 to have applied to them an
indication of the country or place in which they were made or produced or the
name and address of the manufacturer, or person for whom the goods are
manufactured or services provided, as the case may be, are without the
indications so required, shall, unless he proves-
(a) that, having taken, all reasonable
precautions against committing an offence against this section, he had at the
time of commission of the alleged offence no reason to suspect the genuineness
of the trade mark or trade description or that any offence had been committed
in respect of the goods or services, or
(b) that, on demand by or on behalf of the
prosecutor, he gave all the information in his power with respect to the person
from whom he obtained such goods or things or services, or be punishable with
imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may
extend to three years and with fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand
rupees but which may extend to two lakh rupees.
Provided that the court may, for adequate and
special reasons to be mentioned in the judgment, impose a sentence of
imprisonment for a term of less than six months or a fine of less than fifty
thousand rupees.