Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 316 · Decided 10 December 1975
Om Prakash v. Delhi Administration & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 316 · [1976] 2 S.C.R. 981
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 138/1971
- Decided
- 10 December 1975
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, R.S. SARKARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Preve111ion of Food Adulteration Act (37 of 1954), section 7-Taking of '\ samples from differellt receptacles of food for analysis at one time-Whether one or several safes and one or sevual offences. Samples of cow's milk were taken by the concerned officers from 6 out ~f several cans carried by was prosecuted for an offence punishable under s. 16 read with s. 7 of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954. Both the trial Court and the first Appellate Court treated the sales of six: samples as forming part of the same, transaction constituting one single offence. The High
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