JUDGMENT

Leave granted.

2. We have heard learned counsels for the parties.

3. The challenge in this appeal is against the order of the High Court of Karnataka dated 11.06.2012 by which the petition filed under Section 482 Cr.P.C. by the appellant for quashing of the criminal proceedings instituted against him has been dismissed by the High Court.

4. The appellant is the Managing Director of M/s. Castrol India Limited and is facing a prosecution under Section 39 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (for short `the Act') read with Rule 4, 6, 8 and 23(1) of the Standards of Weights and Measures (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 1977.

5. We have perused the complaint petition on the basis of which the proceedings have been instituted against the appellant and we have considered the submissions advanced at the Bar on behalf of the appellant as well as the respondent.

6. A reading of the complaint petition in question does not disclose that any specific act of the appellant resulted in commission of the offences alleged. In the compounding notice issued by the Inspector of Legal Metrology it has been mentioned that the allegedly offending goods (Castrol Plus) were manufactured plus p