law: Beedi and Cigar Workers (Conditions of Employment) Act, 1966
  33.General penalty for offence.-
  (1) Save as otherwise expressly provided in
  
  this Act, any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Act or of
  
  any rule made thereunder , or fails to pay wages or
  
  compensation in accordance with any order of the appellate authority passed
  
  under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 31, shall, be punishable, for
  
  the first offence, with fine which may extend to two hundred and fifty rupees
  
  and for a second or any subsequent offence with imprisonment for a term which
  
  shall not be less than one month or more than six months or with fine which
  
  shall not be less than one hundred rupees or more than five hundred rupees or
  
  with both.
  (2) (a) Any employer who fails to reinstate any employee in accordance with the
  
  order of the appellate authority passed under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of
  
  section 31, shall be punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred and
  
  fifty rupees.
  (b) Any employer, who,
  
  after having been convicted under clause (a), continues, after the date of such
  
  conviction to fail to reinstate an employee in accordance with the order
  
  mentioned in that clause, shall be punishable, for each day of such default,
  
  with fine which may extend to twenty rupees.
  (c) Any Court trying an offence punishable under this sub-section may direct
  
  that the whole or any part of the fine, if realized, shall be paid, by way of
  
  compensation, to the person, who, in its opinion, has been injured by such
  
  failure.
  (3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Payment of Wages Act, 1936(4 of 1936)
  
  with regard to the definition of wages, any compensation required to be paid by
  
  an employer under clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 31 but not paid by
  
  him shall be recoverable as delayed wages under the provisions of that Act.
  (4) It shall be no defense in a prosecution of
  
  any person for the contravention of the provisions of section 3 that any
  
  manufacturing process connected with the making of beedi 
  
  or cigar or both was carried on by such persons himself or by any member of his
  
  family or by any other person living with or dependent on such person.