Judgment

VENKATARAMIAH, J. :- The above Criminal Appeals by Special Leave are filed against a common judgment delivered on April 23, 1980 by the High Court of Punjab and Haryana in Criminal Misc. Nos. 196, 198, 1565, 1567, 1569, 1571 and 1573-M of 1980.

2. By its judgment under appeal the High Court has quashed certain criminal proceedings instituted in different Magistrates Courts against different parties for violation of Section 7(i) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, (hereinafter referred to as the Act). Since the facts in all these cases are more or less the same, we shall briefly state the facts in one of them i. e. Criminal Misc. No. 196-M of 1980 on the file of the High Court filed by Daljit Vig, Works Manager, Kishan Chand and Co. Oil Industry Ltd., Manufacturers of Vanaspati at Ludhiana in which he had prayed for quashing the criminal proceedings which had been initiated by a complaint filed by the Government Food Inspector, District Faridkot. In that case the complainant alleged that when he visited the premises of Darshan Lal (Accused No. 1) on July 30, 1979, he found that Darshan Lal had in his possession for purposes of sale about twenty sealed tins each