law: Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 
  53. Penalty for
  
  contravention of Sec. 23. – 
  Except where any
  
  weight or measure is made or manufactured, with the permission of the Central
  
  Government, exclusively for export, every person who makes or manufactures any
  
  weight or measure which bears thereon any inscription of weight, measure or
  
  number which does not conform to the standards of weight or measure or
  
  numeration established by or under this Act, shall, where such offence is not
  
  punishable under any other law relating to weights and measures for the time
  
  being in force, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to
  
  one year, or with fine which may extend to two thousand rupees, or with both,
  
  and, for the second or subsequent offence, with imprisonment for a term which
  
  may extend to three years and also with fine.