Section 40
Acts Constituting Offence
If any person does any of the following acts, such a person shall be deemed to have committed the offence:
(a) Any act done to inflict serious harm or create the state of famine by depriving anyone of the access to the essential food,
(b) Any act of capturing, destroying or abusing the food hoarded or collected for the purpose of emergency support,
(c) Creating obstruction in the emergency food support distribution,
(d) Creating obstruction, in an organized or unorganized manner, in the transport, supplies, distribution and marketing of the basic food,
(e) Rendering one homeless in such a manner as to deprive him or her of the basis of livelihood,
(f) Not to distribute the food to be distributed pursuant to Section 7 to the targeted class or backward class,
(g) Doing any other act contrary to this Act or the rules framed under this Act.