Supreme Court of India

Municipal Corporation of Delhi v. Laxmi Narain Tandon Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [1976] 2 S.C.R. 1050
Bench Y.V. Chandrachud J.
Decided 17 December 1975
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons we would reverse the answer given by the High Court and hold that the supply or offer of food by a hotelier to a customer when a consolidated charge is made for residential accommodation and other amenities, including food, amounts to a F 'sale' of an article of food for the purpose of the Food Act.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Sale" -Distinction be11·/een-Prevention dj Food -Adulteration Act, 1954, and Punjab General Sales. Tox Act. Storing an article of food for purposes other than sale-I/ constitutes all, offence-Supply and offer of food by a hotelier to a customer under a conso­ ltdated charge-If constitutes sale within the nzeaning of Prevention of Food .dulterc.ilian Act. . . ' The respcndents Y.'ere charged with. an offence under s. 7 read with s. 16 or the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 .. on the ground that they had stored far sale articles of food, which were adulterated and of sub-standard

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 not applicable

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