General penalty applies to contraventions lacking specific penalties, enabling imposition of a prescribed monetary sanction under the Act. General penalty provision: any person who contravenes a provision of the Act or any rules made thereunder for which no separate penalty is provided shall be liable to a penalty, with the maximum quantum of the general penalty specified as twenty five thousand rupees; the clause functions as a residual sanction for breaches not otherwise penalised within the statute or its rules.