Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 340 · Decided 19 July 2000
Food Inspector, Ernakulam and ANR. v. P.S. Sreenivasa Shenoy
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 340 · [2000] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 567
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 545/2000
- Decided
- 19 July 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 216(5)
Headnote
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954: A B Sections 13 and 20(1)-A sample of toor dal was sent for analysis of Public Analyst-Public Analyst giving a report that /oar dal was adulterated C with Kesari dal-Prosecution started on the basis of report o; ,1blic Analyst under Section 16( I-A) read of respondent, a part of the sample was sent for the examination of Director, Central Food Laboratory, who gave a report that the toor dal was adulterated as it contained tartrazine (synthetic D coal tar dye)-On report of Director, a summary trial converted into warrant case trial-Revision
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