May,11,2016:
Chef found preparing, storing and selling food articles in unhygienic conditions.
Chief judicial magistrate Akshdeep Mahajan on Monday sentenced a chef at Taj Chandigarh, Sector 17, to one year in prison after holding him guility of preparing, storing and selling food articles in unhygienic conditions.
Neeraj Chaudhary of Sector 37, who is also a beverages manager at the five-star hotel, was convicted under Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955.
Food inspector Surinder Pal Singh had submitted that during an inspection on the hotel premises on September 8, 2010, Chaudhary was found preparing, storing and selling food articles in unhygienic conditions.
The defence counsel had contended that a senior Chandigarh administration officer had revengefully got a false case lodged against the chef as he was served a food bill.
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- Agricultural And Processed Food Products Export Cess Act,1986
- Agricultural And Processed Food Products Export Development Authority Act,1985
- Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act,1937
- Agriculturists’ Loans Act,1884
- Cattle Trespass Act,1971
- Coffee Act,1942
- Food Safety and Standards Act,2006
- Food Safety and Standards (Contaminants, Toxins and Residues) Regulation,2011
- Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulation,2011 (Part 2)
- Food Safety and Standards (Food Product Standards and Food Additives) Regulation,2011(Part I)
- Food Safety and Standards (Laboratory and Sampling Analysis) Regulation,2011
- Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition and Restriction on Sales) Regulation,2011
- Food Safety and Standards Regulations,2011
- Food Safety and Standards Rules,2011
- Indian Fisheries Act,1897
- Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act,1992
- Insecticides Act,1968
- National Food Security Act,2013
- Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954
- Produce Cess Laws (Abolition) Act,2006
- Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act,2001
- Rubber Act,1947
- Seeds Act,1966
- Spices Board Act,1986
- Standards of Weights and Measures (Enforcement) Act,1985(Repealed)
- Standards of Weights and Measures Act,1976(Repealed)
- State Agricultural Credit Corporations Act,1968
- Sugar Cane Act,1934
- Sugarcane Control (Additional Powers) Act,1962
- Tea Act,1953
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