https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=459128 The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 creates a comprehensive regime for unsafe food, adulteration, offences, penalties, special courts, limitation and procedure, and Section 59 covers conduct amounting to adulteration and sale of noxious food. Section 89 gives the Act overriding effect over inconsistent laws, so where the same conduct falls within the special statute, prosecutions under Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code are displaced. The governing principle is that a special food-safety law supersedes the general penal provisions to the extent of overlap, while proceedings may continue under the Act where permissible. en-us Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 02 Dec 2024 19:08:14 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=459128 The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 creates a comprehensive regime for unsafe food, adulteration, offences, penalties, special courts, limitation and procedure, and Section 59 covers conduct amounting to adulteration and sale of noxious food. Section 89 gives the Act overriding effect over inconsistent laws, so where the same conduct falls within the special statute, prosecutions under Sections 272 and 273 of the Indian Penal Code are displaced. The governing principle is that a special food-safety law supersedes the general penal provisions to the extent of overlap, while proceedings may continue under the Act where permissible. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=459128