Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 9 · Decided 13 January 1999
Calcutta Municipal Corporation v. Pawan K. Saraf and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 9 · [1999] 1 S.C.R. 74
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 3708/1998
- Decided
- 13 January 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. WADHWA, S.S.M. QUADRI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 4
Headnote
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 : Section 13(3) and ( 5 }-Proviso. Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules 1955: Rule 4-Fonns 1 and.2 Appendix B-Item A.04: Food adulteration-Contradictions in reports of Public Analyst and Central Food Laborat01y--Effect of--Compozmded asaf does not conj orm to prescribed standards hence adulterated-On the other hand report of Central Food Laborato1y stating that sample conj om1s to standards-However, report of Central Food laboratory silent on three components of compounded asafoetida-Report also not sent in prescribed
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