JAGDISH CHANDRA Vs. CORPORATION OF CALCUTTA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This Rule was directed against the petitioner's conviction under Section 407 read with Section 488, Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923, for having sold adulterated mustard oil. The prosecution case was based upon an analysis of a sample of the oil concerned disclosing' a saponification value of 177,8. The petitioner's defence was thai the oil was pure.

(2.) The validity of the conviction depends upon the construction to be placed upon the relative words of two Government Notifications, numbered respectively 735 P. H. and 736 P. H., both dated 20-3-1928, issued in exercise of the power conferred by Section 422 of the Act.

(3.) The material part of Section 407 of the Act is in these terms: