(1.) Both the respondents having been acquitted from the charge under Section 16(1)(a)(i) read with Section 7(i) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') the present appeal has been preferred assailing the order of acquittal.
(2.) RESPONDENT No. 1 is the son of respondent No. 2 who had a shop in Chatrapur town. Respondent No. 2 holds a food licence to sell articles of food in that shop. Their residential house is ten to fifteen houses apart from the shop in question as is revealed from the evidence of D. W. 1.
(3.) BOTH the respondents pleaded not guilty to the charge. Their plea was that the til oil was not stated for sale but was kept for their own use for the purpose of massage. Respondent No. 2 took the added plea that he was absent at the time the sample was collected.