law: Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 
  74. Offences by
  
  companies and power of Court fee publish name, place of business,
  
  etc. of companies convicted. -
  (1) If an offence
  
  under this Act is committed by a company, every person who, at the time the
  
  offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to the company for
  
  the conduct of the business of the company as well as the company, 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 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 is attributable to the neglect on the
  
  part of, any director, manager, secretary or other officer, 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 and punished accordingly.
  (3) Where any company
  
  is convicted under this Act for contravention of any of the provisions thereof,
  
  it shall be competent for the Court convicting the company to cause the name
  
  and place of business of the company, nature of the contravention, the fact
  
  that the company has been so convicted and such other particulars as the Court
  
  may consider to be appropriate in the circumstances of the case, to be
  
  published at the expense of the company in such newspapers or in such other
  
  manner as the Court may direct.
  (4) No publication
  
  under sub-section (3) shall be made until the period for preferring an appeal
  
  against-the orders of the Court has expired without any appeal having been
  
  preferred, or such an appeal having been preferred has been disposed of.
  (5) The expenses of
  
  any publication under sub-section (3) shall be recoverable from the company as
  
  if it were a fine imposed by the Court.
  Explanation.- For the purposes 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.