law: Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act, 1985
  56. Penalty for
  
  giving false information or maintaining false records or registers.-
  1.  Whoever
  
  gives information to a Controller, Additional Controller or an Inspector or any
  
  other officer authorised by the Controller, which he may require or ask for in
  
  the course of his duty and which such person either knows or has reason to
  
  believe to be false or does not believe to be true, shall be punished with
  
  imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may
  
  extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.
  2.  Whoever,
  
  being required by or under this Act so to do, submits a return or maintains any
  
  record or register which is false in any material particular, shall be punished
  
  with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, and, for the second or
  
  subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year
  
  and also with fine.