https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=467527 Chewing tobacco was treated as a banned food product within the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 because the statutory definition of food was read broadly and the Act's overriding and regulatory provisions, including the prohibition on tobacco and nicotine as ingredients, were applied. Relying on binding precedent that gutkha and chewable tobacco fall within the Act, the Court held that the State notification restricting manufacture, storage, transport, distribution and sale reinforced the regulatory scheme. On that basis, the food analyst's report and the resulting proceedings were not found to suffer from any jurisdictional defect, and the challenge on that ground failed. en-us Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:23:36 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=467527 Chewing tobacco was treated as a banned food product within the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 because the statutory definition of food was read broadly and the Act's overriding and regulatory provisions, including the prohibition on tobacco and nicotine as ingredients, were applied. Relying on binding precedent that gutkha and chewable tobacco fall within the Act, the Court held that the State notification restricting manufacture, storage, transport, distribution and sale reinforced the regulatory scheme. On that basis, the food analyst's report and the resulting proceedings were not found to suffer from any jurisdictional defect, and the challenge on that ground failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 14 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=467527