(1) Whenever any intoxicant, hemp, mhowra fl owers or molasses are manufactured, imported, exported, transported, sold or are possessed by any person on account of any other person and such other person knows or has reason to believe that such manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or possession is, on his account, the intoxicant, hemp, mhowra fl owers or molasses, as the case may be, shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to have been manufactured, imported, exported, transported or sold by or to be in possession of, such other person.
(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall absolve any person from liability to any punishment under this Act for the unlawful manufacture, import, export, transport, sale or possession of such articles.
81. Whoever, attempts to commit or abets the commission of an offence under this Act shall, on conviction, be punished for such attempt or abetment with the same punishment as is provided for the principal offence.