law: Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 
  87. Offences by companies.
  1.       Where
  
  an offence under this Act has been 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, 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 attributable 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 and punished accordingly.
  Explanation.—  For the purposes of this
  
  section,—
  a.     
  
    “company” means any body corporate and includes a firm or other
  
  association of individuals and a Requiring Body; and
  b.    
  
    “director”, in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.