Supreme Court of India

Food Inspector, Calicut Corporation v. Cherukattil Gopalan and Anr.

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Reported as [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 721
Bench C. A. Vaidialingam and A. N. Ray JJ.
Decided 6 May 1971

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

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

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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