ORDER

The accused Nos.1 to 9 in S.T No.1509/2018 of the Judicial First Class Magistrate Court, Kodungalloor, have filed this petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C to quash the proceedings against them in the aforesaid case. The offence alleged against the petitioners are under Sections 11 r/w 29 and 34 of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 (for short ‘the Act’).

2. The proceedings in the aforesaid case were initiated by the learned Magistrate on the basis of a complaint filed by the Inspector, Legal Metrology, Kodungalloor. The petitioners/accused Nos.1 to 8 are stated to be the Directors and Additional Directors of the 9th petitioner M/s.Yum Restaurants India Pvt.Ltd (9th accused). The 10th accused was the Manager of the Restaurant by name M/s.KFC, Ground Floor, Mughal Mall, North Nada, Kodungalloor, a restaurant under M/s.Yum Restaurants India Pvt.Ltd, where the complainant conducted an inspection on 23.05.2017. In the aforesaid inspection, the complainant is said to have detected the sale of french fries and pepsi by issuing invoice with its quantity in non-standard units such as Reg, Med and Large, which according to the accused, were the short form of Regular, Medium and Large sizes. I