law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  40. Penalty for
  
  selling goods to which false geographical indication is applied.-
  Any person who sells,
  
  lets for hire or exposes for sale, or hires or has in his possession for sale,
  
  goods or things to which any false geographical indication is applied o which,
  
  being required under section 71 to have applied to them an indication of the
  
  country or place in which they were made or produced or the name and address of
  
  the manufacturer, or person for whom the goods are manufactured or without the
  
  indication so required, shall, unless he proves,-
  a.  
  
    that,
  
  having taken all reasonable precautions against committing an offence against
  
  this section, he had at the time of commission of the alleged offence no reason
  
  to suspect the genuineness of the geographical indication or that any offence
  
  had been committed in respect of the goods; or
  b.  
  
    that,
  
  on demand by or on behalf of the prosecutor, he gave all the information in his
  
  power with respect to the person from whom he obtained such goods or things; or
  c.  
  
    that
  
  otherwise he had acted innocently, be punishable with imprisonment for a term
  
  which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to three years and
  
  with fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may
  
  extend to two lakh rupees:
  Provided that 
  
  the court may, for adequate and special reasons to be mentioned in the
  
  judgment, impose a sentence of imprisonment for a term of less than six months
  
  or a fine of less than fifty thousand rupees.