Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 345 · Decided 13 December 1971
Jagdish Prasad Alias Jagdish Prasad Gupta v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 345 · [1972] 2 S.C.R. 845
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 50/1969
- Decided
- 13 December 1971
- Bench
- P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954-Prevention of Food A'dulteration Rules, 1955-Appendix B A 17.06-Public Analyst-Failure to report on al/ tests-Does not make report ineffective-Section 16(i)­ Sentience-Circustances justi/Ying reduction-Sanction-Bengal Municipal Act, 1932. The under s. 7(i) /16(i) (a) (i) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, and sentenced to one year rigorous imprisonment. His appeal to the Sessions Judge was without success and a revision to the High Court, was also dismissed. In apinal to this Court it was contended that (i) the
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