(1) Whenever any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses are manufactured, imported, exported, transported, sold, or are possessed by any person on account of any other person and such other person knows or has reason to believe that such manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or possession is, on his account, the intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses, as the case may be, shall, for the of purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been manufactured, imported, exported, transported or sold by or to be in possession of, such other person. (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall absolve any person from liability to any punishment under this Act for the unlawful manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or possession of such articles.
<span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>1</i>) Whenever any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses are manufactured, imported, exported, transported, sold, or are possessed by any person on account of any other person and such other person knows or has reason to believe that such manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or possession is, on his account, the intoxicant, hemp, mhowra flowers or molasses, as the case may be, shall, for the of purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been manufactured, imported, exported, transported or sold by or to be in possession of, such other person.<br> <span style="margin-left:15px;"></span>(<i>2</i>) Nothing in sub-section (<i>1</i>) shall absolve any person from liability to any punishment under this Act for the unlawful manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or possession of such articles.<br>