law: Contact Labour (Regulation and Abolition) Act, 1970
  25. 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 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 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 attributable to any neglect on the part of any
  
  director, manager, managing agent or any other officer of the company, such
  
  director, manager, managing agent or such other officer shall also be deemed to
  
  be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and
  
  punished accordingly.
  Explanation: For the purpose of this section-
  (a) "company" means any body corporate and includes a
  
  firm or other association of individuals; and
  (b) "director", in relation to a firm, means a partner
  
  in the firm.