(1.) Whether Section 13(2) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 is mandatory or directory in nature is the question in abstract which has been referred for an authoritative decision by a Full Bench in these two Criminal Appeals Nos. 66-DBA and 90-DBA of 1982 ? Yet it has to embed on some facts.
(2.) A broad outline of the case against Deboo Respondent in Criminal Appeal No. 66-DBA of 1982 is this:
(3.) In Criminal Appeal No. 90-DBA of 192 the broad outline of the case is this: