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Section 6. Punishment for administering medicine to patient which may be injurious or unfit for use

Any medical practitioner who administers any medicine to any patient as if it was some other medicine, or who administers medicine which he knows or has reason to believe would be injurious, or has become spoiled, shall be punished with imprisonment which may extend to three months, or with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees, or with both.