Essential Commodities Act, 1955–Sec. 3/7–Acquittal–Appreciation–Recovery of sugar from godown–Neither sample was taken by raiding party nor the article was weighted–Plea of defence that the article was sulphur sugar which could be kept up to fifty quintals under the licence–Testimony of Pw 4 was found contrary to prosecution case yet he was not declared hostile–Allegations of not keeping the price list also not established as the raiding party reached just after opening the shop–Held, the acquittal was justified.
