{"id":172901,"date":"1998-04-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-04-29T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/harjeet-singh-vs-state-on-30-april-1998"},"modified":"2015-11-24T07:47:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T02:17:48","slug":"harjeet-singh-vs-state-on-30-april-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/harjeet-singh-vs-state-on-30-april-1998","title":{"rendered":"Harjeet Singh vs State on 30 April, 1998"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Delhi High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Harjeet Singh vs State on 30 April, 1998<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1998 IVAD Delhi 737, 1998 (2) ALT Cri 19, 1998 CriLJ 3536, 1998 (3) Crimes 285, 76 (1998) DLT 511, 1998 (46) DRJ 96<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: D Bhandari<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: D Bhandari<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p> Dalveer Bhandari, J. <\/p>\n<p> 1.     This  revision petition is directed against the order of  the  learned Additional Sessions Judge, Delhi passed in Criminal Appeal No. 45 of 1980.\n<\/p>\n<p> 2.   The petitioner was convicted for an offence punishable under Section 7<br \/>\nread  with Section 16 of the Prevention of Food and Adulteration Act,  1954 and was sentenced to four months&#8217; R.I. and to pay a fine of Rs. 2,000\/- and in  default of payment of fine to undergo further R.I. of three  months  by the learned Metropolitan Magistrate.\n<\/p>\n<p> 3.   The  petitioner aggrieved by the order of the learned Additional  Sessions  Judge  preferred this revision petition. Brief  facts  necessary  to dispose of this petition are recapitulated as under:\n<\/p>\n<p> 4.   On  13.6.1978, the Food Inspectors Mr. R.K. Ahuja and Mr.  A.P.  Singh went  to the factory of M\/s H.S. Oberoi Sons &amp; Co. and had taken nine  bottles of carbonated water from one crate out of a lot of different crates on payment of Rs. 26.40. These nine bottles were divided into three parts  and these were separately sealed in accordance with the Rules. The case of  the prosecution is that though the contents in the carbonated water showed  the presence  of  saccharine but the bottle had no label  declaration  to  that effect so the public analyst opined the sample to be adulterated.\n<\/p>\n<p> 5.   According  to  Rule 47 of the Prevention of Food  Adulteration  Rules, permissible  limit of saccharine is to the extent of 100 parts per  million (PPM). According to Rule 32, a label has to be affixed specifying the name, trade name or description of food contained in the packet and the name  and business  address of the manufacturer or vendor or packer.  The  carbonated water  bottle purchased by the Food Inspector had no such label.  Ram  Kaur was found to be the sole proprietor of the said firm while her son  Harjeet Singh was alleged to have sold the sample for analysis as a person actually working  on spot. Under Section 2(ix)(k) an article is deemed to  be  misbranded if it is not labeled in accordance with the requirements of the Act and  the  Rules. Therefore, both the appellants have been charged  for  the offence of mis-branding.\n<\/p>\n<p> 6.   During  the pendency of this revision petition, Ram Kaur  expired  and her revision petition became infructuous. Learned counsel for the petitioner  Ms Neeta Thakur submitted that there is no valid sanction for  prosecution  as envisaged under Section 20 of the Prevention of Food  Adulteration Act, 1954. She has drawn my attention to the original sanction order  which was granted by the Secretary (Medical) Delhi Administration on  30.10.1978. This sanction is on cyclostyled proforma where the names of the petitioners Harjeet Singh and Ram Kaur have been filled in later on. Similarly, carbonated  water, name of the Inspector and date of lifting of the  sample  were filled  in  later on. The learned counsel for the petitioner  submits  that there  has  been no application of mind before granting  sanction  for  the prosecution.\n<\/p>\n<p> 7.   Learned counsel has placed reliance on number of decided judgments  of this  Court.  In  R.N. Gujral and another Vs. Pritipal Gupta  :  1988  (II) Prevention of Food Adulteration Cases 84 this Court observed that  sanction granted  on  a cyclostyled form wherein the name of the  accused  had  been typed in the body of a form the date of lifting of the sample and also  the food articles namely, mustard oil has been typed in that form. The  offence made  out under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act for  which  offence the respondent was tried, has also been mentioned. The Court observed  that the  sanction of prosecution was not a proper sanction and  therefore,  the entire trial was vitiated.\n<\/p>\n<p> 8.   Ms.  Thakur, the learned counsel for the petitioner also placed  reliance  on  State (Delhi Admn.) Vs. Shyam Lal; 1987 (II) Prevention  of  Food Adulteration  Act  198.  In this case also the sanction  to  prosecute  was recorded  by the Secretary (Medical) Delhi Administration and the  sanction granted  on  a cyclostyled form wherein the name of the  accused  had  been typed  in the body of the form and the food article as well as the date  of the  lifting of the sample was also typed out. The Court observed that  the sanction to prosecute was not valid and on that ground dismissed the appeal by the Delhi Administration.\n<\/p>\n<p> 9.   The  learned  counsel for the petitioner also placed reliance  on  Ms. Shakun  and another Vs. Delhi Administration Delhi; 1989 (1) Prevention  of Food  Adulteration Cases, 387, while placing reliance on the aforesaid  two judgments,  the  revision petition filed by the petitioner was  allowed  in this case.\n<\/p>\n<p> 10.  The  learned  counsel also invited my attention, to  another  reported case State Vs. Brij Mohan : 1985 (I) Prevention of Food Adulteration Cases, 74.  In this case the court placed reliance on two celebrated cases  Gokulchand  Dwarkadas  Morarka Vs. The King . The  Court  observed as under :\n<\/p>\n<p>       &#8220;The  sanction to prosecute is an important matter :  It  constitutes a condition precedent to the institution of the prosecution and the Government have an absolute discretion to grant or  withhold their sanction. A sanction which simply names the  persons to  be prosecuted and specifies the provision of the order  which he is alleged to have contravened is not a sufficient  compliance with  Clause  23 of the Cotton Cloth and  Yarn  (Control)  Order,      1943&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p> 11.  `The  Court  also placed reliance on Mohd. Iqbal Ahmed  Vs.  State  of Andhra Pradesh; . In the said case the court observed that :\n<\/p>\n<p>       &#8220;What  the  Court has to see is whether or  not  the  Sanctioning Authority  at the time of giving sanction was aware of the  facts constituting  the offence and applied its mind for the same;  any subsequent fact which may come into existence after the grant  of sanction  is wholly irrelevant. The grant of sanction is  not  an idle formality or an acrimonious exercise but a solemn and sacrosanct act which affords protection to Government servants against frivolous  prosecution  and must therefore be  strictly  complied with before any prosecution be launched against the public  servant concerned.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p> 12.  The learned counsel for the petitioner also placed reliance on another judgment  of this Court in Nand Kishore &amp; Anr. Vs. State (Delhi Admn.);  . In this case the Court has  arrived  at  the conclusion that if the sanction for the prosecution shows lack of  application  of mind by the authority concerned, in that event the  conviction  in Food Adulteration Act, 1954 can be sustained.\n<\/p>\n<p>      The  sanction  to prosecute is a very vital and important  matter.  It constitutes  a condition precedent to the institution of  the  prosecution. The  sanctioning  authorities either the Central Government  or  the  State Government  have absolute discretion either to grant sanction  or  withhold the sanction. It must be clearly borne out from the sanctioning order  that before granting sanction or withholding sanction, the sanctioning authority had all the necessary facts constituting the offenses before it. It  should also be clear from the sanctioning order that there has been proper application  of mind before taking the decision. Grant of sanction or  withholding of  the  sanction is not an idle formality or acrimonious  exercise  but  a solemn  and sacrosanct act which has to be performed with  extreme  caution and  care.  This  is virtually the foundation on which  the  entire  future course of action is totally dependent.\n<\/p>\n<p> 13.  When ratio of all those cases is applied to the facts of this case the conclusion  becomes  irrestible.  The sanction  granted  by  the  Secretary (Medical) Delhi Administration on 30.10.1978 was on a cyclostyled  proforma and  in the body all the names and facts were typed out such as &#8211; the  name of the accused, the sample of what commodity, the name of the Food  Inspector  and under what provisions the accused has been prosecuted. It  becomes abundantly clear from bare perusal of the sanctioning order that the  sanction was granted in a mechanical manner and without any serious application of mind. The solemn and sacrosanct duty was not performed in the manner  in which it ought to have been performed.\n<\/p>\n<p> 14.  In view of this matter, this Court is left with no option but to allow this Revision Petition and the order dated 13.11.1978 granting the sanction is  set  aside. Consequently, the petitioner in this petition  stands  discharged.\n<\/p>\n<p> 15.  This petition is accordingly allowed and disposed of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court Harjeet Singh vs State on 30 April, 1998 Equivalent citations: 1998 IVAD Delhi 737, 1998 (2) ALT Cri 19, 1998 CriLJ 3536, 1998 (3) Crimes 285, 76 (1998) DLT 511, 1998 (46) DRJ 96 Author: D Bhandari Bench: D Bhandari ORDER Dalveer Bhandari, J. 1. 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