law: The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001
  72. Penalty for
  
  falsely representing a variety as registered.-
  Whoever makes any
  
  representation with respect to the denomination of a variety or its propagating
  
  material or essentially derived variety or its propagating material not being
  
  variety or its propagating material or essentially derived variety or its propagating
  
  material registered under this Act, to the effect that it is a variety or its
  
  propagating material or essentially derived variety or its propagating material
  
  registered under this Act o otherwise represents any variety, or its
  
  propagating material, or essentially derived variety or its propagating
  
  material not registered under this Act to the effect that it is registered
  
  under this Act shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term, which shall
  
  not be less than six months but which may extend to three years, or with fine
  
  which shall not be less than one lakh rupees but which may extend to five lakh
  
  rupees, or with both.