HARI RAM Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) REVISIONIST Hari Ram has been convicted under Sec. 3/7 Essential Commodities Act and sentenced to R. I. for three months and a fine of Rs. 1000/- in default further R. I. for three months.

(2.) THE prosecution case in brief was that a party of district officials on the evening of 3-10-1977 checked the revisionist's shop in district Pauri and discovered some violations of U. P. Essential Commodities (Display of Prices and Stocks and Control of Supply and Distribution Order 1977). THEse breaches are said to have consisted of (1) sale of three 2 kg tins of mustard oil on 17-9-1977 without issue of cash memos (2) receipt of twenty four 900 gms small tins of mustard oil on 3-10-1977 without an entry in the stock register, (3) sale on 3-10-77 of four tins out of these without: cash memos and (4) non display of the stock list in the shop.

(3.) IN view of this conclusion it is not necessary to consider the other points relied upon on behalf of the revisionist.