# Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016, Section 36: Penalty for dealing in spurious liquor

- Act: Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 (Act 20 of 2016)
- Source URL: https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/bihar-prohibition-excise-act-2016/section/36/

## Text

Whoever,manufactures, possesses, sells, distributes, bottles, imports, exports, or transports any spurious liquor ,shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than ten years but which may extend to imprisonment for life and with fine, which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to ten lakh rupees. Explanation: - "Possession" here means the possession by any family or member of that family and includes the knowledge of possession where any member of a family or the family itself know that such possession is illegal, whether it is in his or her own possession or with some other member of the family.

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