Section 50. For possession of illicit liquor.

1[2[(1) Whoever, without lawful authority, is found to be in possession of any quantity of liquor or any intoxicating drug which has been imported and/or transported and/or manufactured without authorisation and/or without the payment of prescribed duty therefor, shall on conviction before a Judicial Magistrate be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years but shall not be less than three years and with fine which may extend to ten times the duty involved but shall not be less than five times the said duty.] 3[(2) If any person is found in possession, in any Tehsil, town or city in which a licensee cannot sell to any person any liquor for consumption outside the premises of his place of business except in standard sealed bottles, of any liquor which has been unlawfully manufactured, it shall be presumed that such person knew that it had been so manufactured.]