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accused to be acquitted. HEADNOTE: The appellant, a grocer, sold compounded asafoetida in sealed tins received from a licenced manufacturer. The appellant stored it properly ... alcoholic content was less than the minimum prescribed and therefore, the compounded asafoetida was adulterated. The Trial Court acquitted the appellant. On appeal

appellant is a grocer. He sells compounded asafoetida. He purchased compounded asafoetida in sealed tins from the New India Hing Supplying Company, Bombay. In August ... defines the standard of quality of asafoetida. It is stated that compounded asafoetida shall not contain less than 5 per cent alcoholic extract