|Allahabad High Court
Section 49 & 52 Food Safety Act | Penalty for Misbranding Must Account for Knowledge, Gain, and Repetition : Allahabad HC Reduces Fine
Allahabad HC rules that penalties under the Food Safety Act must consider the offender's lack of knowledge, absence of quantifiable gain, and non-repetitive nature of the violation. The court reduced a Rs. 3 lakh fine to Rs. 60,000, emphasizing proportionality in enforcement for small vendors unaware of misbranding.