law: The Competition Act, 2002 
  46. Power to impose
  
  lesser penalty.-
  The Commission may,
  
  if it is satisfied that any producer, seller, distributor, trader or service
  
  provider included in any cartel, which is alleged to have violated section 3,
  
  has made a full and true disclosure in respect of the alleged violations and
  
  such disclosure is vital, impose upon such producer, seller, distributor,
  
  trader or service provider a lesser penalty as it may deem fit, than leviable
  
  under this Act or the rules or the regulations: Provided that lesser penalty
  
  shall not be imposed by the Commission in cases where proceedings for the
  
  violation of any of the provisions of this Act or the rules or the regulations
  
  have been instituted or any investigation has been directed to be made under
  
  section 26 before making of such disclosure:
  Provided further that
  
  lesser penalty shall be imposed by the Commission only in respect of a
  
  producer, seller, distributor, trader or service provider included in the
  
  cartel, who first made the full, true and vital disclosures under this section:
  
  Provided also that the Commission may, if it is satisfied that such producer,
  
  seller, distributor, trader or service provider included in the cartel had in
  
  the course of proceedings,- 
  a.  
  
    not
  
  complied with the condition on which the lesser penalty was imposed by the
  
  Commission; or
  b.  
  
    had
  
  given false evidence; or
  c.  
  
  
  
    the
  
  disclosure made is not vital, and thereupon such producer, seller, distributor,
  
  trader or service provider may be tried for the offence with respect to which
  
  the lesser penalty was imposed and shall also be liable to the imposition of
  
  penalty to which such person has been liable, had lesser penalty not been
  
  imposed.