Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940
33EEA. Spurious drugs
For the purposes of this Chapter, an Ayurvedic, Siddha or Unani
drug shall be deemed to be spurious-
(a) if it is sold, or offered or exhibited for sale. 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 any other
drug or substance; or
(e) if it purports to be the product of a manufacturer of whom
it is not truly a product.