2019 (7) TMI 2062

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....eepak Thakare, PP a/w Mr.S.R.Shinde, APP for the Respondent Nos.1 and 3State. Mr.Ganesh Gole a/w Mr.Kunal Waghmare for Respondent No.2MCGM. ORDER P. C. 1. Heard Mr.Kantawala, learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr.Kamdar, learned Senior Counsel for respondent Nos.1 and 3 and Mr.Gole, learned counsel for the respondent No.2 Corporation. 2. The petition is filed under Article 226 of the Cons....

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....that he serves tobacco free hookahs in his restaurants and for that purpose he used product by brand name "Soex". 4. It is specific case of the petitioner that the product "Soex" does not contain tobacco or nicotine. In order to demonstrate so, he relies upon the following reports : (i) Report of the Director of Forensic Science, Gujarat State. (ii) Report of Bombay Forensic (India's Fore....

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....ef referred herein above. 7. The petition was placed for admission on 08.07.2019. After hearing the parties we directed Mr.Thakare, learned PP and Mr.Gole learned counsel for the Municipal Corporation to verify and test the product "Soex". Mr.Kamdar, learned Senior Counsel for the respondent Nos.1 and 3 and Mr.Gole, learned counsel for respondent No.2 submitted that they have already sent the sai....

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....pal Corporation to the Additional Chief Secretary (HOME). This communication is of Municipal Commissioner's response to the Additional Chief Secretary in pursuant of the letter from Commissioner of Police regarding Hookha Parlours in Mumbai City. The Municipal Commissioner made his stand clear by stating that hookha Parlours do not fall under the ambit of eating house and therefore do not fall....