TILAK RAJ Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN this petition under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure a complaint filed by the Food Inspector under Section 7 read with Section 16(1)(a) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act against the petitioner Tilak Raj is sought to be quashed.

(2.) IT is held by the Supreme Court in Crl. Appeal No. 400 of 1986 (in SLP No. 701 of 1986), A.K. Roy and another v. State of Punjab and others, 1986(2) Recent Criminal Reports 569; decided on September 29, 1986, that :-

(3.) CONSEQUENTLY , this petition is allowed. The impugned complaint as well as the proceedings taken in pursuance thereof in the Court of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jalandhar, are quashed. Petition allowed.