law: Equal Remuneration Act, 1976
  10. Penalties 
  (1) If after the commencement of this Act, any
  
  employer, being required by or under the Act, so to do- 
  (a) omits or fails to
  
  maintain any register or other document in relation to workers employed by him,
  
  or
  (b) omits or fails to
  
  produce any register, muster-roll or other document relating to the employment
  
  of workers, or
  (c) omits or refuses
  
  to give any evidence or prevents his agent, servant, or any other person in
  
  charge of the establishment, or any worker, from giving evidence, or
  (d) omits or refuses
  
  to give any information, he shall be punishable 2[with simple imprisonment for
  
  a term which may extend to one month or with fine which may extend to ten
  
  thousand rupees or with both].
  (2) If, after the commencement of this Act,
  
  any employer- 
  (a) makes any
  
  recruitment in contravention of the provisions of this Act, or
  (b) makes any payment of
  
  remuneration at unequal rates to men and women workers, for the same work or
  
  work of a similar nature, or
  (c) makes any
  
  discrimination between men and women workers in contravention of the provisions
  
  of this Act, or
  (d) omits or fails to
  
  carry out any direction made by the appropriate government under sub-section
  
  (5) of section 6, he shall be punishable 2[with fine which shall not be less
  
  than ten thousand rupees but which may extend to twenty thousand rupees or with
  
  imprisonment for a term which shall be not less than three months but which may
  
  extend to one year or with both for the first offence, and with imprisonment
  
  which may extend to two years for the second and subsequent offences].
  (3) If any person being required so to do,
  
  omits or refuses to produce to an inspector any register or other document or
  
  to give any information, he shall be punishable with fine which may extend to
  
  five hundred rupees.