Crl. Appeal No.173-MA of 2008 -1- **** IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl. Appeal No.173-MA of 2008 Date of decision:01.12.2008. Union Territory, Chandigarh ...Petitioner Versus Surinder Kumar and others …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE S.D.ANAND. **** Present: Mr. Tarundeep Kumar, Advocate for Mr. Hemant Bassi, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Sameer Sachdeva, Advocate for respondents No.1 and 2 ***** S.D.ANAND, J. The Union Territory, Chandigarh has filed the present plea to obtain the invalidation of the finding of acquittal recorded in favour of the respondent/accused by the learned Trial Magistrate. It is apparent, from a perusal of the impugned order, that on a plea filed by the respondent/accused, the second sample was forwarded to the Director, Central Food Laboratory and it was found to be adulterated on the following finding:- “Does not contain AGMARK grade designation (Logo) and hence does not conform to PFA Act 1954 under Section 21 (a).” In the context of the charge afore-mentioned, learned Trial Magistrate noticed that the Food Inspector had himself found the following Crl. Appeal No.173-MA of 2008 -2- **** particulars relating to AGMARK available on the label. “T.F. No.57 (Agmark) Agmark No.303589 303825 303848” The learned Magistrate proceeded to exonerate the respondent/accused by recording the following observations:- “However, as already discussed above, there is no provision for affixing AGMARK logo on the label. AGMARK Certificate number as well as AGMARK serial number have been mentioned and there was thus no false claim on the quality of the product on the part of either the manufacturer or the vendor. The Public Analyst had not disclosed the sample to be adulterated on the ground on which Central Food Laboratory had declared it to be adulterated as no logo was required to be affixed. In no manner, the accused can be held to have violated the provisions of PFA Act. “ Learned counsel has not been able to persuade this court to find any fault with the finding recorded by the learned Trial Magistrate. In the light of the fore-going discussion, the appeal is held to be devoid of merit and there are no ground to grant the leave to appeal to the appellant/complainant. Dismissed. December 01, 2008 (S.D.ANAND) Pka JUDGE Crl. Appeal No.173-MA of 2008 -3- ****