Section 215 - “Making Buying or Selling False Weight or Measure”: Whoever makes, buys sells, or disposes of any instrument for weighing or any weight or any measure of length or capacity which he knows to be false in order that the same may be used as true or knowing that the same is likely to be used as true, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or with fine or with both. CHAPTER 19. OFFENCES AFFECTING THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, CONVENIENCE, DECENCY AND MORALS Section 216 - “Public Nuisance Defined”: (1) A person commits an offence of public nuisance who does an act or commits an illegal omission which causes any common injury, danger or annoyance to the public or to the people in general who dwell or occupy property in the vicinity or which must necessarily cause injury, obstruction, danger or annoyance to persons who may have occasion to use any public right, (2)Where premises on which a public nuisance has occurred are occupied by two or more persons in common each of such persons shall be liable to conviction on account of the nuisance in the absence of sufficient evidence that he has not committed such an offence. Explanation 1:- A public nuisance does not cease to be an offence because it causes some convenience or advantage. Explanation 2:- Whether an act or omission, a public nuisance is a matter of fact, which depends on the character of the neighbourhood. Illustration:- A powerful steam whistle sounded at intervals during the day, which might be a public nuisance in a residential quarter, may not be a public nuisance in a manufacturing quarter. Section 217 - “Adulteration of Food or Drink Intended for Sale”: Whoever adulterates any article of food or drink or abstracts from any article of food or drink any part thereof so as to affect injuriously the quality, substance or nature, intending to sell such article as food or drink without notice to the purchaser or knowing that it is likely that the same will be sold as food or drink without notice to the purchaser, commits an offence and shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or with fine or with both. 61