PIARE LAL Vs. THE STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PIARE Lal has filed this revision against the judgment dated September: 6. 1977(sic), of the Additional Sessions Judge, Faridkot, whereby a sentence of rigorous imprisonment for six months together with the payment of a fine of Rs. l,00(sic)/ -in relation to the commission of an offence under Section 16(1)(a) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act as imposed by the Judicial Magistrate First Class, Moga, by judgment dated November 2.(sic), 1976 had been confirmed.

(2.) IT was on February 26, 1976, at Moga that 68(sic) gm of wheat flour was purchased from the Petitioner by Dr. Prem Paul Bansal PW1, the Food inspector. The report of the Public Analyst in relation to the sample of flour obtained from the Petitioner is that the same contained four living insects and was unfit for human consumption.