Section 61
Punishment for false information.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
If a person, in connection with a requirement or direction
under this Act, provides any information or produces any document that the person knows is false or
misleading, he shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months and
also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees.