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2011 DIGILAW 1847 (ALL)

Rupesh Kumar and Anr. v. State of U. P. & Anr.

2011-08-02

BALA KRISHNA NARAYANA

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Bala Krishna Narayana, J. Heard learned counsel for the applicants and learned A. G. A. for the State. Since the facts of the case are not in dispute this application is being disposed of finally with the consent of learned counsel for the parties at this stage. It is indisputed that the date on which the impugned complaint against the applicant was filed The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 had been enforced and hence the complaint filed against the applicants by opposite party no. 2 under The Prevention of Food Adulteration Act was not maintainable. It is further not in dispute that the applicants' premises was raided on 25.4.2011 and the complaint was filed against them on 27.6.2011 under Section 7/16 of Prevention of Food Adulteration Act in the Court of A. C. J. M., Ist, Mirzapur and cognizance was taken by the court below vide order dated 27.6.2011. Learned counsel for the applicants submitted that the order by which the court below has taken cognizance of the offence and summoned the applicants is an absolutely cryptic and non-speaking order which does not reflect at all any application of mind by the Court to the facts of the case and relevant provisions of law and such the same cannot be sustained. Learned A. G. A. does not dispute the aforesaid legal and factual aspects of the matter. After having examined the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the parties and perused the impugned order, I find that the submissions advanced by learned counsel for the applicants have substance and the same are liable to be accepted. The applicants' premises was raided on 25.4.2011. On that date The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 stood enforced and as such the applicant could be prosecuted only under the provisions of The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006. For the aforesaid reasons, this application is allowed, the summoning order dated 27.6.2011 is quashed with the liberty to the respondents to proceed against the revisionist under the provisions of The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.