https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=436041 Tobacco and chewing tobacco were treated as outside the definition of "food" under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, because the Act is directed to food safety and cannot be used to regulate scheduled tobacco products under the special tobacco statute. Section 30(2)(a) was described as a temporary emergency power, limited in duration and required to operate with Section 18 safeguards and fair hearing principles; repeated annual prohibitory notifications were therefore beyond power. The notifications also created an arbitrary distinction between smokeless and smoking tobacco, failing Article 14's requirement of rational classification. en-us Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:37:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=436041 Tobacco and chewing tobacco were treated as outside the definition of "food" under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006, because the Act is directed to food safety and cannot be used to regulate scheduled tobacco products under the special tobacco statute. Section 30(2)(a) was described as a temporary emergency power, limited in duration and required to operate with Section 18 safeguards and fair hearing principles; repeated annual prohibitory notifications were therefore beyond power. The notifications also created an arbitrary distinction between smokeless and smoking tobacco, failing Article 14's requirement of rational classification. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 27 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=436041