Order

19/11/2025

1. A prayer has been made for quashing of the impugned FIR No.160/2022 registered with the Police Station Sadar Dholpur, District Dholpur for the offences under Sections 272, 273 & 420 IPC along with Sections 26 (2)(i) and 59(i) of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 (for short “the Act of 2006”) and the entire proceedings arising out of the aforesaid FIR.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the aforesaid FIR was registered by the Police Station Sadar Dholpur against the petitioner for the above stated offences with the allegation that when certain food articles were seized from the petitioner and samples of the same were taken for testing, the seized articles were found to be adulterated and incorrectly branded. Learned counsel submits that treating the aforesaid act of the petitioner as an offence punishable under various provisions of the IPC and the Act of 2006, not only an FIR was registered, but the charge-sheet has also been submitted against the petitioner. Learned counsel submits that by virtue of Section 89 read with Section 59 (i) of the Act of 2006, an FIR cannot be registered in such like matters on the grounds that these sections under