MOHINDER PAL Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS revision is directed against the judgment and order dated February 4, 1985, passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Ludhiana, confirming the conviction and sentence recorded against the petitioner by the trial court for the offence under Section 16(1)(a)(i) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act (for short, the Act).

(2.) THE facts giving rise to this petition can be stated as under :-

(3.) A single Judge of this Court, follows the ratio of M.V. Krishnan Nambissan v. State of Kerala AIR 1966 SC 1676 in Shanti Bassi and another v. State of Punjab 1976(1) FAC 241, quashed the proceedings in which the petitioners Shanti Bassi and another were prosecuted under Section 16(1)(a)(i) of the Act for mixing adulterated rape-seed oil in Vanaspati Ghee, of which the said oil was one of the constituents on a finding that no standard was prescribed under the Act in regard to the quality of rape-seed.