Section 246(c) in The City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948
(c)no offence shall be deemed to have been committed where such person proves to the satisfaction of the Court that he obtained the food, drink, drug or substitute under a warranty from the person manufacturing it within the City or importing it within the same that the food, drink, drug or substitute had not been adulterated, or that it fulfilled the conditions specified or that it was not a substitute and that he had no reason to believe otherwise or had no reasonable ground for believing that by lapse of time or otherwise the warranty no longer held good.