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Satyapal Anand Vs. the State of Madhya Pradesh and ors.

Court : Madhya Pradesh

Reported in : AIR1979MP6; 1978MPLJ727

..... act 'seed' has been denned in sub-clause (11) of s, 2 of the seeds act, 1966 which is as under: '(11) 'seeds' means any of the following classes of seeds used for sowing or planting:-- (i) seeds of food crops including edible oil-seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables; (ii) cotton seeds, (iii) seeds of cattle fodder, (iv) [jute seeds] and includes seedlings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder;' this definition also clearly indicates that what is termed as 'seeds ..... regulating the quality of seeds and the sale thereof an act has been passed which is the seeds act 1966 (act no. ..... it was also contended that the levy order, 1973 has been issued by the government while exercising powers under section 3 of the essential commodities act and under this section orders could only be passed pertaining to food stuffs which are meant for human consumption and in order to provide for distribution of those food ..... could not be enacted in exercise of powers under section 3 of the essential commodities act to cover wheat-seed which is neither food stuff nor is meant for distribution to the general public. ..... under section 3 of the essential commodities act no order could be passed for levy of wheat-seed which is not for public distribution and not a food crop and therefore not ..... seed develops from the ovule, the embryo resulting from the union of the megagamete (egg) and miscrogamete (sperm), the act .....

E.i.D. Parry (India) Limited Represented by Its Secretary Vs. the Secy ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : (1984)2MLJ211

..... as regards the certificate issued by the director of agriculture dated 26th august, 1972, it requires to be stated that it came to be issued under the seeds act of 1966 because under section 2(ii) of that act defined seed meaning 'any of the following classes of seeds used for sowing or planting: seeds of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables'. ..... under the essential commodities act, 1955, the central government passed the foodgrains movement restrictions (exemption of seeds) order, 1970(called the movement order, 1970) by which seeds of foodgrains which are certified under section 9 of the seeds act, 1966 by the certified agency notified under section 9 of the act are exempted from movement restrictions enforced by the state government. ..... certified seed means seeds certified as such under section 9 of the seeds act, 1966 by the certifying agency notified under section 8 of the said act.3. ..... :nothing contained in any order imposing restrictions on the movement of food-grains (including seeds thereof) issued by the central government or a state government shall apply to the movement or transportation, by any person of seeds of notified kinds or varieties certified or truthfully labelled under the provisions of the said act and the rules made thereunder.provided that such movement or transportation of notified kinds or varieties of seeds shall take place only in sealed packs container or bags duly labelled in accordance .....

R.S. Arora Vs. State

Court : Delhi

Reported in : 1986(11)DRJ314

..... 3 of the essential commodities act, 1955 and not under the seeds act, 1966 and the scope and the fields of the two are quite different and distinct from each other, inasmuch as the provisions of this order pertain to the great/refusal/renewal of the license and its period of validity or with the dealers displaying the stocks and price-list whereas the seeds act and the rules made there ..... under talk of altogether other things including the standard of the seeds ..... the learned magistrate ordered the issuance of notice under section 250 of the code after rejecting the application of the petitioner for discharge in the complaint filed under sections 7/19 of the seeds act, 1966 (in short the act). ..... the aforesaid period of 30 days stood amended in view of the time limit of 60 days prescribed for the analysis in section 14 of the seeds control order, 1983 issued by the government of india, ministry of agriculture (department of agriculture and cooperation) dated 30-12-1983 issued under section 3 of the essential commodities act, 1955 which reads as follows : - 'time limit for analysis the laboratory to which a sample has been sent by an inspector for analysis .....

Omprakash Gulabchandji Partani Vs. Ashok and Another

Court : Mumbai

Reported in : 1993(3)BomCR611; 1992CriLJ2704

..... with the rights of the accused after the institution of a prosecution under the seeds act, 1966, which is reproduced as under : 'after the institution of a prosecution under this act, the accused vendor or the complainant may, on payment of the prescribed fee, make an application to the court for sending any of the samples mentioned in clause (a) or clause (c) of sub-section (2) of section 15 to the central seed laboratory for its report and on receipt of the application, the court shall first ..... section 7(b) of seeds act, 1966 reads as under : 'no person shall, himself or by any other person on his behalf, carry on the business of selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, bartering or otherwise supplying any seed of any notified kind or variety, unless - (b) such seed conforms to the minimum limits of germination and purity specified under clause (a) of section 6;' therefore, according to him, section 14 empowers the seed inspector to enter and search the premises or any place in which he has reasons ..... section 15 of the seeds act, 1966 deals with the procedure to be followed by the seed inspector while taking the sample of any seed of any notified kind or ..... the seeds act, 1966 deals with the powers of the seeds inspector. ..... of the seeds act, 1966 deals with the ..... initially when he visited and collected the samples from the shop of the applicant/accused, he had reason to believe that either an offence has been or is being committed as per the section 14(1)(c) of the seeds act, 1966. .....

Northern India Seeds Corporation and Seeds India Vs. the State of Biha ...

Court : Patna

..... further submitted that the matters relating to supply and collection of seeds and testing in a laboratory are governed by the provisions of seeds act, 1966 and the rules framed thereunder. ..... disputed in terms of the aforementioned agreements, the petitioners were required to supply the certified seeds which in turn means that the seed so supplied should conform to the standard prescribed under the seeds act, 1966.35. ..... beej ke parteyak boro par seed act, 1966 ke antargat ankuran shudhta lot number tatha aapurtikarta ka ..... contended that rajendra agriculture university is not a notified laboratory under the seeds act, 1966.19. ..... counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioners, has, however, submitted that in terms of sections 4, 12, 15 and 16 (1) and (2) of the seeds act as also rules 24, 25 and 26 framed thereunder only such seeds can be tested which are collected by the inspectors appointed therefor. ..... the provisions of the contract, it was the petitioner who was to satisfy the authorities of the biscomaun about the standard of the seeds supplied by annexing certificate from the authorities under the seeds act and/or the agriculture university of the area. ..... that samples were not taken by the competent authority and, thus, there has been violation of the provisions of the seeds act. ..... clause 5 of the agreement, the petitioners were required to produce the purity and germination test certificates from a concerned agriculture university or any notified testing laboratory under the seeds act. .....

First Leasing Company of India Ltd. and Others Vs. Additional Registra ...

Court : Chennai

Reported in : [1997]89CompCas635(Mad)

..... the starting point of limitation in respect of a prosecution initiated under the seeds act, 1966, was considered. ..... lifted on january 5, 1984, that is not the material date for the purpose of limitation, but the starting point of limitation is march 1, 1984, when the report of the seed analyst was received by the seed inspector and keeping that date in view the prosecution against the petitioner launched on august 1, 1984, is obviously within the statutory limitation of six months and thus the contention of learned ..... in that case, while considering the provisions of the employees' provident funds scheme read with relevant provisions under the employees' provident funds and miscellaneous provisions act, 1952, the full bench observed that it cannot be said that cognizance having once been taken by the trial court, it would not be open to the accused to raise the issue ..... bench observed that if the registrar were to be excluded from the purview of definition of 'person aggrieved by the offence', it would reduce the chit funds act to a futility and if the registrar was not allowed to invoke the provisions of section 469(1)(b) of the criminal procedure code, the chit transaction will only ..... start in the case in hand when the sample was lifted, as the making of the offence could not be known and it could be known only when the seed analyst submitted his report to the seed inspector under section 16(1) of the act whereupon the seed inspector could launch the prosecution against the offender. .....

Gururaj Seeds (Pvt.) Ltd. Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : [1995]97STC246(AP)

..... section 7 of the seeds act, 1966, inter alia, enjoins that no person shall, himself or by any other person on his behalf, carry on business of selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, buttering or otherwise, supplying any seed of any notified kind or variety except when the container of such seed bears in the prescribed manner, the mark or label containing the correct particulars thereof and this is commonly known ..... section 9 of the said seeds act is an enabling provision and as per that section, if any person who sells, keeps for sale, offers ..... : 'in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 9 of the andhra pradesh general sales tax act, 1957 (andhra pradesh act vi of 1957), the governor of andhra pradesh hereby exempts from the tax payable under the said act, the sales or purchases of all varieties of certified and truthfully labelled seeds for agricultural purposes.' 5. ..... the matter in consultation with the agriculture and co-operative department and they hereby clarify that both 'certified seeds and/or truthfully labelled seeds' are exempt from tax as per the order issued in g.o.ms. no. ..... read above, a similar order was issued under the central sales tax act in respect of the above goods sold in the course of inter-state ..... dated april 9, 1981, the government issued orders exempting from the tax payable under the andhra pradesh general sales tax act the sales or purchases of all varieties of certified and truthfully labelled seeds for agricultural purposes. .....

Pinakini Seeds Vs. State of Andhra Pradesh

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : [1995]98STC144(AP)

..... before we proceed further, it would be appropriate to notice that the requirement of certified or truthfully labelled seeds for agricultural purposes is the concept borrowed from the seeds act, 1966, which is a central act enacted with the object of regulating the quality of seeds of any kind or variety to be sold for the purposes of agriculture. ..... we have already observed that the purpose of the seeds act is to regulate the quality of the seeds of any kind or variety to be sold for the purposes of agriculture. ..... we may also point out that section 7 of the seeds act, enjoins every person who carries the business of selling, keeping for sale, offering to sell, bartering or otherwise supplying any seeds of any notified kind or variety either by himself or by any other person on his behalf, among other things, to have the container of the seeds truthfully labelled as stated above. ..... as stated above, 'certified and truthfully labelled seeds' are seeds which have been so classified under the 'seeds act'. ..... therefore, labelling or certification of the seeds is only for the purposes of agriculture under the seeds act. 12. ..... we are afraid, we cannot accede to the contention of the learned government pleader for we have already explained the necessity of using the words 'for agricultural purposes' in the context of the seeds act. .....

Sai Seed Agricultural Farms, Rep. by Its Prop. Sambari Shankar and ors ...

Court : Andhra Pradesh

Reported in : 1997(6)ALT32

..... was suspected to be spurious cotton intended for sale and that too, without licence and necessary documents and as such, they fall within the ambit of seeds act, 1966 and can be proceeded only in the manner indicated under the seeds act, 1966 and the rules titled 'seeds rules, 1968' and that the prosecution launched under seeds (control) order, 1983, which had been promulgated in exercise of the powers contained under section 3 of the essential commodities ..... which reads as follows:'2(11) 'seed' means any of the following classes of seed used for sowing or planting -(i) seeds of food crops including edible oil seeds and seeds of fruits and vegetables;(ii) cotton seeds;(iii) seeds of cattle fodder;(iv) jute seeds, and includes seedings, and tubers, bulbs, rhizomes, roots, cuttings, all types of grafts and other vegetatively propagated material, of food crops or cattle fodder;'reading the scheme of seeds act, 1966 leaves no doubt that the special act has been enacted only for ..... the purpose of ensuring the quality of the seeds for .....

State of Rajasthan Vs. Sanjay Kumar and ors.

Court : Supreme Court of India

Reported in : AIR1998SC1919; 1998(1)ALD(Cri)931; 1998(2)ALT(Cri)115; 1998(46)BLJR1142; 1998CriLJ2531; 1998(2)Crimes321(SC); JT1998(3)SC647; RLW1998(2)SC320; 1998(3)SCALE380; (1998)5SCC82

..... the question which fell for consideration of delhi high court was whether for prosecution under sections 7, 19 and 16(1) of the seeds act, 1966, the period of limitation of six months would start from the date of collection of samples under clause (a) or from the date of seed analyst report for purposes of clause (b) of section 469(1) cr.p.c. ..... sub-section (2) postulates different period of limitation for offences with reference to the punishment provided for them; if the punishment provided for an offence in any act is only fine, the period of limitation fixed is six months; if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year, the period of limitation prescribed is one year and if the ..... state, (1993) 2 crimes 203, a learned single judge of the andhra pradesh high court held that for prosecution of offences of misbranding under insecticides act, the period of limitation would start from the date on which the report of the analyst was received but not from the date of taking samples and thus section 469 ..... that the drugs which were offered for sale were sub-standard/adulterated, within the meaning of the act, came to the knowledge of the drugs inspector only on july 2, 1988 when the report of the government analyst was received by him; and therefore, clause (b) of section 469 ..... of the delhi high court took the view that the limitation commences from the date of submission of the report by the seed analyst to the inspector, so section 469(1)(b) would apply. .....