Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 58 · Decided 28 March 1973
Bishambar Nath and Others v. The Agra Nagar Mahapalika Agra and Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 58 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 777
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1809/1967
- Decided
- 28 March 1973
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, S.N. DWIVEDI, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 273; CrPC Section 144
Headnote
. u.P. Municipalities Act, Sec. 244, "An article of food or drink apptars to be intended for tire conswnptio1r of man,"-Un{it condition ._ fl/ foodstuff i~ to ~e determine~ by . an objccth·e test and not 011 c subjective salls/actlOii of the mspectmg o[Jicer-Whethl!r the order ~·a/id undu Sec. 244. The appellant purchased certain quantity of wheat flour from the ~Jilitary Dairy Farm, Agra. which was declared unfit for human con­ sumption. He exposed it for sale with a sign-board that the wheat flour 11'015 uniit for human consumption. The appellant
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