Criminal Revision No. 781 of 2006 1 .. IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Revision No. 781 of 2006 Date of Decision : 16.3.2011 M/s Northern Minerals Limited and another ......Petitioners Versus The State of Haryana and another. .....Respondents CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAWAB SINGH Present: Mr. Arun Nehra, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Satyavir S. Yadav, DAG, Haryana, for the respondents-State. NAWAB SINGH J (Oral) Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gurgaon, by judgment dated January 17th, 2005 convicted the petitioners – M/s Northern Minerals Limited, Joshi Road, Karol Bagh, New Delhi and Sh. P.K.Gupta, its Assistant Manager, under Section 29(1)(a) of the Insecticides Act, 1968 (for short, “the Act”) and sentenced them vide order dated January 18th, 2005. M/s Northern Minerals Limited was imposed fine of ` 20,000/-, whereas, P.K.Gupta – petitioner No.2 was sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of two years and to pay fine of ` 1000/- with default stipulation. Appeal filed by the petitioners was also dismissed by Additional Sessions Judge, Gurgaon vide judgment dated April 8th, 2006. Aggrieved of the judgments passed by Courts below, petitioner has preferred this revision. 2. During the pendency of the revision, P.K.Gupta (Petitioner No.2) has died, as stated at bar by learned counsel representing him. Accordingly, revision filed by him stands abated. 3. M/s Northern Minerals Limited (petitioner No.1) manufactured the insecticide Malathion. The same was recovered Criminal Revision No. 781 of 2006 2 .. on April 25th, 1994. The part of the sample was sent to Quality Control Laboratory, Karnal, which vide report (Exhibit P7) declared the insecticide misbranded. The report (Exhibit P16) of Central Insecticide Laboratory, Faridabad, where also the part of the sample was sent, found the insecticide to be misbranded as it did not conform to the relevant “specification in the Active Ingredient content requirement”. 4. After going through the evidence on record, this Court does not find any ground warranting interference with the concurrent findings of the Courts below. In view of this, the revision petition filed by M/s Northern Minerals Limited (Petitioner No.1) fails and is hereby dismissed. (NAWAB SINGH) JUDGE 16.03.2011 som