https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=370188 Gutkha and similar chewable tobacco products were treated as "food" under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 because the definition in Section 3(j) was read broadly to cover substances intended for human consumption, including chewing products. The Court held that the ban on tobacco and nicotine ingredients under the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulations, 2011 operates consistently with the Act and is not displaced by the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003. It further held that allegations of inter-State illegal manufacture, distribution and official complicity justified transfer of the investigation to the CBI under Article 226 to secure a fair and credible probe. en-us Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 13 Nov 2018 07:48:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=370188 Gutkha and similar chewable tobacco products were treated as "food" under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 because the definition in Section 3(j) was read broadly to cover substances intended for human consumption, including chewing products. The Court held that the ban on tobacco and nicotine ingredients under the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulations, 2011 operates consistently with the Act and is not displaced by the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act, 2003. It further held that allegations of inter-State illegal manufacture, distribution and official complicity justified transfer of the investigation to the CBI under Article 226 to secure a fair and credible probe. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 26 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=370188