law: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
  77. Offences by
  
  companies.-
  1.  If
  
  the person committing an offence under this Act is a company, the company as
  
  well as every person in charge of, and responsible to, the company for the
  
  conduct of its business at the time of the commission of the offence shall be
  
  deemed to be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against
  
  and punished accordingly: Provided that nothing contained in this sub-section
  
  shall render any such person liable to any punishment, if he proves that the
  
  offence was committed without his knowledge or that he had exercised all due
  
  diligence to prevent the commission of such offence.
  2.  Notwithstanding
  
  anything contained in sub-section (1), where an 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 that the commission of the offence is a
  
  tributable 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 also be deemed to be guilty of that offence and shall be liable
  
  to be proceeded against an punished accordingly. Explanation.-For the purposes
  
  of this section,-
  a.   "company"
  
  means anybody corporate and includes a firm or other association of
  
  individuals; and
  b.   "director",
  
  in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.