Supreme Court of India
Food Inspector, Calicut Corporation v. Cherukattil Gopalan and Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In the result the judgment and order of the High Court are set aside and the appeal allowed.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954)-Section 16 (l)(a)(i)-Sale of Food for ana/ysit-To be guilty of offence under section, food need not be intended for sale and person selling need not be a dealer. sale of an article of food for analysis being "sale" within the mean- ing of s. 2(xiii) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, an anicle of food sold to the Food Inspector, if found to be adulterated. the M:Cuse<i will be guilty of an offence punishable under s. l6(1)(a)(i) read with s. 7 of the Act. The article of food purchased by the Food Inspector need not nave
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Directorate of Revenue Intelligence v. Raj Kumar Arora & Ors.
- 1978 State of Kerala Etc. Etc. v. Alaserry Mohammed Etc. Etc.
Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned
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