1. The petitioner is an Association of State Municipal and Corporation Sanitary Inspectors and Sanitary Officers represented by its President. In this writ petition, the petitioner has come forward to seek for a direction to the respondents to include and treat the Diploma holders and those who have completed training in Food Inspection and Sampling at the institutions approved by the Government of India for appointing them for the posts of Food Safety Officers as per the draft rule issued in GSR No.39(E) in Section 2.1.3(IV) of Food Safety Officers.

2. According to the petitioner, under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, the Food Safety Officer is defined as a person who had already been appointed as a Food Inspector under the provision. It is the case of the petitioner that they have got diploma in Food Technology from the Vinayaga Mission Research Foundation which is a deemed University. When those diploma holders who are working in the department, were selected and sent for Food Inspector Training, the same was challenged by the Graduate Food Inspectors Association. The matter was finally dealt with by a division bench in W.A.(MD)No.236 and 237 of 2007, da