law: Bonded Labor System (Abolition) Act, 1976 
  23. OFFENCES BY COMPANIES. – 
  (1) Where any offence under this Act has been
  
  committed by a company, every person who, at the time the offence was
  
  committed, was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the
  
  conduct of the business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed
  
  to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and
  
  punished accordingly.
  2) Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (1), where any offence under this Act has
  
  been committed by a company and it is proved that the offence has been
  
  committed with the consent or connivance of, or is attributable to, any neglect
  
  on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer of the
  
  company, such director, manager, secretary or other officer shall be deemed to
  
  be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and
  
  punished accordingly.
  Explanation:  For the purposes of this section.- 
  (a) " company "
  
  means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association of
  
  individual; and
  (b) " director ", 
  
  in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.