Kolkata Court October 1936 Judgments

Manindra Nath Banerjee and anr. Vs. Jyotish Chandra Dutta

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: AIR1937Cal60

R.C. Mitter, J.1. This Rule has been obtained by the two petitioners before us who have been convicted of an offence punishable under Section 6, Sub-section 1, el. (c), Bengal Food Adulteration Act, and each of them sentenced under Section 21 of the said Act to pay a fine of Rs. 150, in default to suffer simple imprisonment for one month. The charge against the petitioners is that they stored for sale adulterated ghee in a shop situate in Katwa bazar within the Municipal limits of Katwa. The finding is that petitioner 2, Dinanath Bhakat, is the owner of the said shop and petitioner 1, Manindra Nath Banerjee, is his shop assistant. The facts which have been established are that on 14th September 1935 Jotish Chandra Dutt, the complainant, who is the Sanitary Inspector of the Katwa Municipality accompanied by some members of the Food Adulteration Committee of the said Municipality took samples of ghee and mustard oil from five shops of the Katwa bazar. No sample was taken from the shop of...