Penalty for allowing any premises to be used for purpose of committing an offence under Act

(1) Whoever, being the owner or occupier, or having the use or care or management or control of any place, knowingly permits it to be used for the purpose of the commission by any other person of any offence punishable under this Act, shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees or with both: Provided that in the absence of special and adequate reasons to the contrary to be mentioned in the judgement of the court, the imprisonment shall not be less than three months and fine shall not be less than five hundred rupees. (2) It shall be presumed until the contrary is proved, that a person accused of an offence under sub-section (1) as committed such offence if the offence committed by that other person is proved to have been committed in the premises in his immediate possession.