law: Drugs (Control) Act, 1950 
  2. Interpretation. - 
  (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise
  
  requires, -
  (a) “dealer” 
  
  means a person carrying on, either personally or through any other person, the
  
  business of selling any drugs, whether wholesale or retail;
  (b) “drug” 
  
  means any drug as defined in Clause (b) of Section 3 of the Drugs and Cosmetics
  
  Act, 1940(23 of 1940) in respect of which a declaration has been made under
  
  Section 3;
  (c) “offer for sale “
  
  includes a reference to an intimation by a person of the price proposed by him
  
  for a sale of any drug, made by the publication of a price list, by exposing
  
  the dug for sale in association with a mark indicating price, by the furnishing
  
  of a quotation or otherwise howsoever;
  (d) “producer “
  
  producer includes a manufacturer.
  (1-A) As from the Ist 
  
  November, 1956, any reference in this Act to the Central Government or the
  
  Chief Commissioner shall, in relation to the territories which, immediately
  
  before the Ist November 1956, were comprised in the
  
  Part C State of Ajmer or Bhopal and  Vindhya Pradesh or Coorg or  Kutch be construed as a reference to the State Government
  
  of Rajasthan or Madhya Pradesh or Mysore or Bombay,
  
  as the case may be.
  (2) A drug shall be deemed to be in the
  
  possession of a person -
  ( i )
  
  when it is held on behalf of that person by person or when held by that person
  
  behalf of another person;
  (ii) notwithstanding
  
  that it is mortgaged to another person.