Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
17B. Spurious drugs
For the purposes of this Chapter, a drug shall be deemed to be
spurious,-
(a) if it is manufactured under a name which belongs to another
drug; or
(b) if it is an imitation of, or is a substitute for, another
drug or resembles another drug in a manner likely to deceive or bears upon it
or upon its label or container the name of another drug unless it is plainly
and. conspicuously marked so as to reveal its true character and its lack of
identity with such other drug; or
(c) if the label or container bears the name of an individual or
company purporting to be the manufacturer of the drug, which individual or
company is fictitious or does not exist; or
(d) if it has been substituted wholly or in part by another drug
or substance., or
(e) if it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom
it is not truly a product.