Supreme Court of India

M. V. Joshi v. M. U. Shimpi and Another.

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Decided 27 February 1961

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The appellant was selling butter which was found to be below the standard prescribed. He was convicted under s. 16(1) read with S. 7(1) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for two months and to pay a fine of Rs. 250/-. He contended (i) that butter prepared from curd was not butter within the meaning of r. -11, 0. 5 of Appendix to the Rules which defined butter to mean ’the product prepared exclusively from milk or cream, and (ii) that the butter was not adulterated as no foreign article bad been added to it.

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