https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=752955 Criminal proceedings under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 concerning alleged non-compliant packaged goods sold at a duty free shop in an international airport were found unsustainable where the sale occurred beyond the customs frontiers of India. The Court treated such duty free sales as outside the customs area for the statutory setting considered and held that the Legal Metrology Officer lacked authority on those facts to initiate the complaint. The proceedings were therefore treated as not in accordance with law, amounting to an abuse of process, and were quashed. en-us Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 21 May 2024 14:57:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=752955 Criminal proceedings under the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011 concerning alleged non-compliant packaged goods sold at a duty free shop in an international airport were found unsustainable where the sale occurred beyond the customs frontiers of India. The Court treated such duty free sales as outside the customs area for the statutory setting considered and held that the Legal Metrology Officer lacked authority on those facts to initiate the complaint. The proceedings were therefore treated as not in accordance with law, amounting to an abuse of process, and were quashed. Case-Laws Customs Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=752955