Allowed
Ajay Kumar Pengoria and Another v. State of U.P.
Allahabad HCA482/762/2000
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
In an application under Section 482 CrPC, the High Court quashed criminal proceedings for food adulteration. The court held that the analysis report commissioned over a year after sample collection lacked justification, rendering the complaint unsustainable.
What did the court decide?
Quashed the entire proceedings of Criminal Case No. 501 of 1998 under Section 7/16 of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954.