Punishment for allowing premises to be used for the commission of an offence

Whoever being the owner or occupier or having the use of any house, room, enclosure, space, vessel, compound, place or vehicle, knowingly permits it to be used for the commission, by any other person, of an offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be liable to be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years but not less than two months and with fine which may extend to five thousand rupees but not less than one thousand rupees; Provided that a person who is under 21 years of age and against whom no previous conviction is proved, may be awarded a sentence of less than two months and a fine less than one thousand rupees for reasons to be recorded in the judgement that in consideration of the age, character and antecedents of the person concerned, a lesser sentence is justified.