Food Safety And Standars Authority Of India vs. Jaya Products Through Its Partner

ITEM NO.51 COURT NO.8 SECTIONS. XVIA/ $IX/X/XI/XV/IVA/PIL(W)$ SUPREME COURT OF INDIA RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Transfer Case (Civil) No(s). 1/2010 <table><tbody>CENTRAL ARECANUT MARKETING COPN.& ORS.Petitioner(s)</tbody> VERSUS UNION OF INDIA Respondent(s) WTTH T.C. (C) No. $6/2010$ T.C. (C) Nos. $12-14/2014$ T.C. (C) No. $15/2014$ T.C. (C) No. $16/2014$ W.P.(C) No. $344/2011$ W.P. (C) No. $330/2011$ (With Interim Relief and Office Report) T.C. (C) No. 95/2012 (With appln.(s) for impleadment) T.C. (C) No. $10/2014$ T.C. (C) No. 11/2014 W.P. (C) No. $141/2011$ (With appln.(s) for permission to file additional documents and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. $354/2011$ (With appln.(s) for amendment of the petition and interim relief and Office Report) $W.P.(C)$ No. 572/2013 (With office report) $W.P.(C)$ No. 289/2011 (With appln.(s) for directions and intervention and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 69/2011 (With appln.(s) for directions and impleadment and Office Report) T.C. (C) No. $9/2014$ SLP(C) No. $16308/2007$ Signal we the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the <pre>% rections and intervention and urging addl. grounds and Interim</pre> Reason Relief and Office Report)

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SLP(C) Nos. 19467-19469/2007 (With appln.(s) for clarification and clarification/direction and exemption from filing O.T., impleadment and permission to file affidavit and seeking permission to raise additional grounds and interim Relief and Office Report) SLP(C) No. 16314/2007 (With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and Interim Relief and Office Report) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 348/2011 In SLP(C) Nos. 19467-19469/2007 SLP(C) No. 16317/2007 (With appln.(s) for exemption from filing c/c of the impugned judgment and Interim Relief and Office Report) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 37/2012 In SLP(C) No. 16308/2007 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 288/2011 In SLP(C) No. 16308/2007 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 236/2011 In SLP(C) No. 16308/2007 (With Office Report) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 356/2011 In SLP(C) No. 16308/2007 W.P.(C) No. 304/2011 (With appln.(s) for Amendment of the petition and Office Report) T.C.(C) No. 4/2010 T.C.(C) No. 18/2014 SLP(C) Nos. 4165-4166/2013 (With Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 144/2015 T.C.(C) No. 21/2014 T.C.(C) No. 22/2014 T.C.(C) No. 8/2016 T.C.(C) No. 7/2016 T.C.(C) No. 6/2016 T.C.(C) No. 5/2016 T.C.(C) No. 2/2010 T.C.(C) No. 3/2010 W.P.(C) No. 131/2011 (With Office Report) SLP(C) No. 32162/2012 (With Interim Relief and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 147/2013 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report)

SLP(C) No. 32163/2012 (With Office Report) T.C.(C) No. 5/2010 T.C.(C) No. 25/2010 (With appln.(s) for clarification and Stay) T.C.(C) No. 20/2014 T.C.(C) No. 38/2014 T.C.(C) No. 36/2014 T.C.(C) No. 37/2014 T.C.(C) No. 19/2014 T.C.(C) No. 34/2014 T.C.(C) No. 33/2014 T.C.(C) No. 35/2014 SLP(C) No. 28716/2012 (With Interim Relief and Office Report) W.P.(C) No. 182/2011 (With Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 143/2015 T.P.(C) No. 98/2015 (With Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 21/2015 (With Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 1919/2014 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report) T.C.(C) No. 24/2014 T.C.(C) No. 25/2014 T.P.(C) No. 77/2015 (With appln.(s) for ex-parte stay and Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 91/2015 (With appln.(s) for ex-parte stay and Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 76/2015 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report) T.P.(C) No. 111/2015 (With appln.(s) for stay and Office Report) Date : 23/09/2016 These matters were called on for hearing today. CORAM : HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE V. GOPALA GOWDA HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL Mr. Gopal Subramanium, Sr. Adv. (A.C.) Mr. Talha Abdul Rahman, Adv. Ms. Anusha Ramesh, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, Adv. Mr. Pradeep Singh, Adv. Mr. Pavan Bhushan, Adv. Mr. Lalltaksh Joshi, Adv. Mr. Ranjith Singh, Adv.

Mr. C.S. Vaidyanathan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nalin Talwar, Adv. Mr. Vivek Kohli, Adv. Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Adv. Ms. Anubha Singh, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Mathur, Adv. Ms. Sanjana Mohanty, Adv. Ms. Sidharth Chowdhary, AOR Mr. Sudhir Chandra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Anoop George Chowdhary, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sanjai Kumar Pathak, AOR Ms. Shashi Pathak, Adv. Ms. A. Sumathi, AOR Mr. Shailesh Madyal, AOR Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. Subramonium Prasad, Sr. Adv. Ms. Bina Gupta, AOR Mr. Chanchal Kumar Ganguli, AOR Mr. Subramonium Prasad, AOR Mr. Arun K. Sinha, AOR Mr. Joseph Pookkatt, Adv. Mr. Prashant Kumar, AOR Mr. Ujjal Banerjee, Adv. Ms. Shabdita Singh, Adv. Mr. Jay Kishore Singh, AOR Mr. Satish Chandra, Sr. Adv. Mr. Nagmohan Das, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vikas Singh, Sr. Adv. Mr. Mayank Pandey, Adv. Ms. Deepika Kalia, Adv. Ms. Shilpi Singh, Adv. Ms. Geeta Luthra, Sr. Adv. Ms. Shivani Luthra Lohiya, Adv. Mr. Prateek Yadav, Adv. Mr. D. N. Goburdhan, AOR

UP Pollution	Mr. Rishabh Sancheti, Adv.
Control Board	Ms. Padma Priya, Adv.
	Mr. T. Mahipal, AOR
	Ms. Aparna Jha, AOR
	Mr. Siddhartha Chowdhury,AOR
	Mr. K. C. Dua,AOR
	Mr. Anil Kumar Jha,AOR
	Mr. Shiv Prakash Pandey,AOR
	M/s Temple Law Firm, Advs.
	Mr. R. Gopalakrishnan,AOR
	Mr. Vikas Mehta,AOR
	Ms. Ranjeeta Rohtagi,AOR
	Mr. Rakesh Dahiya,AOR
F.S.S.A.I.	Mr. Mehmood Pracha, Adv.<br>Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR
	Mr. K. Rajeev, AOR
	Mr. Nikhil Jain,AOR
	Mr. S. K. Verma,AOR
	Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, AOR
	Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv.
State of Bihar	Mr. Rudreshwar Singh, Adv.
	Mr. Samir Ali Khan, AOR
	Mr. Krishanakant Dubey, Adv.
	Mr. Vivek Vardhan, Adv.
	Ms. Sushma Suri, AOR
State of Karnataka	Mr. K.N. Bhat, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. V. N. Raghupathy, AOR
	Mr. Parikshit P. Angadi, Adv.
	Mr. Lagnesh Mishra, Adv.

	Mr. Pravin H. Parekh, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Lalit Chauhan, Adv.<br>Mr. Sumit Goel, Adv.<br>Mr. Abhishek Vinod Deshmukh, Adv.<br>Ms. Rashi Gupta, Adv.<br>For M/s Parekh & Co., Advs.
	Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, Adv.<br>Ms. Bina Madhavan, Adv.<br>Ms. Akanksha Mehra, Adv.<br>Mr. Mrityunjai Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Piyush Dwivedi, Adv.
	Mr. Prateek Dhir, Adv.
	For M/s Lawyers' Knit & Co., Advs.
	M/s Nuli & Nuli, Advs.
	Mr. Shreekant N. Terdal, AOR
Ministry of Health<br>& Family Welfare/<br>MoEF	Mr. A.K. Panda, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. R. Balasubramaniah, Adv.<br>Ms. Sadhna Sandhu, Adv.<br>Mr. Ajay Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Ms. Aarti Sharma, Adv.
	Mr. G.S. Makker, AOR<br>Mr. Alok Sangwan, Adv.<br>Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv.
	Mr. Ranjit Singh, Adv.
	Ms. Rashmi Malhotra, Adv.
	Mr. D. S. Mahra, AOR
	Mr. P. S. Sudheer, AOR
	Ms. V. Mohana, Sr. Adv.<br>Ms. Shirin Khajuria, AOR
	Mr. Sajjan Poovaliya, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. C.U. Singh, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Ajay Agarwal, Adv.
	Ms. Kanika Gomber, Adv.
	Ms. Ruchika, Adv.
	Mr. Rajan Narain, AOR
	Ms. Bharti Tyagi, AOR
	Mr. Nitin S. Tambwekar, Adv.<br>Mr. Seshatalpa Sai Bandaru, Adv.
Chhatisgarh Environment	Ms. Yogmaya Agnihotri, Adv.
Conservation Board	Ms. Purnima Bhat, Adv.

State of Chhattisgarh	Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR<br>Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Adv.
	Mr. Kundan Kumar Mishra, AOR
State of Rajasthan	Mr. S.S. Shamshery, AAG<br>Mr. Amit Sharma, Adv.<br>Mr. Prateek Yadav, Adv.<br>Mr. Ankit Raj, Adv.<br>Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR
SDMC	Mr. Rakesh Kumar, AOR
State of M.P.	Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR<br>Mr. Purushaindra K., Adv.<br>Ms. Anuradha Mishra, Adv.
	Mr. Ashok Panigrahi, AOR
	Mr. Nikilesh Ramachandran, AOR
	Mr. P. V. Yogeswaran, AOR
	Mr. Ravi Kumar Tomar, AOR
	Ms. Shally Bhasin, AOR
M.C.D.	Mr. R.K. Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Virag Gupta, Adv.<br>Mr. Aum<br>Mangalassery, Adv.<br>Mr. Praveen Swarup, AOR
	Mr. Khwairakpam Nobin Singh, AOR
Control Board	Rajasthan State Pollution Mr. K.B. Rohatgi, AOR<br>Mr. Mahesh Kasana, Adv.
	Mr. Mahesh Kasana, Adv.
State of U.P.	Mr. Gaurav Dhingra, AOR<br>Mr. Aviral Saxena, Adv.
State of J & K	Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AOR
	Mr. L.C. Agrawala, AOR
	For M/s. Equity Lex Associates, Advs.
	Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, AOR

State of Jharkhand Mr. Tapesh Kumar Singh, AOR Mr. Mohd. Waquas, Adv. Mr. Aditya Pratap Singh, Adv. State of Tamil Nadu Mr. B. Balaji, AOR Mr. Muthuvel, Adv. Mr. A. Arvind, Adv. Mr. T.N. Rama Rao, Adv. Mr. Hitesh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. T. Veera Reddy, Adv. Ms. C.K. Sucharita, AOR State of Tamil Nadu Mr. M. Yogesh Kanna, AOR Ms. Nithya, Adv. Dr. Monika Gusain, AOR State of Haryana Mr. Alok Sangwan, AAG Mr. Devashish Bharuka, Adv. Ms. Anu Tyagi, Adv. Mr. Ravi Bharuka, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR State of Uttarakhand Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Uttarakhand Environment Mr. Mukesh Verma, Adv. Pollution Control Board Mr. Pawan Kumar Shukla, Adv. Mr. Yash Pal Dhingra, AOR Mr. Ritesh Kumar, AOR Ms. Asha Gopalan Nair, AOR UT of Andaman & Mr. K. V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Nicobar Admn. Ms. G. Indira, AOR State of Rajasthan Gp. Capt. Karan Singh Bhati, Adv. Ms. Mehul Singh, Adv. Mr. T. Gopal, Adv. Mr. Adarsh Kumar Tiwari, Adv. Mr. Amit Verma, Adv. Mr. Dilip Kumar Nayak, Adv. Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Venkita Subramoniam T.R., AOR Mr. Basava Prabhu S. Patil, Sr. Adv. Mr. Shailesh Madiyal, AOR Ms. Shivani Srivastava, Adv. Mr. Chinmay, Adv.

	Mr. Kaushik Poddar, AOR
	Mr. Irshad Ahmad, AOR
	Mr. N. Ganpathy, AOR
	Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR
	Ms. Praveena Gautam, AOR
	M/s. Karanjawala & Co.
	Mr. P. Parmeswaran, AOR
	Mr. Avijit Bhattacharjee, AOR
CPCB	Mr. Vijay Panjwani, AOR
	Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR
	Mr. Surya Kant, AOR
Odisha SPCB	Mr. Ashok Kumar Panda, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Tejaswi Kumar Pradhan, AOR<br>Mr. Manoranjan Paikaray, Adv.
State of Odisha	Mr. Krishnayan Sen, AOR<br>Mr. Uddyam Mukherjee, Adv.
	State of Arunachal Pradesh Mr. Anil Shrivastav, AOR
State of Tripura	Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR<br>Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv.<br>Ms. Varsha Poddar, Adv.
	Mr. K.B. Rohatgi, AOR
	Mr. Kamal Mohan Gupta, AOR
	M/s Corporate Law Group, Advs.
State of Gujarat	Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR
State of H.P.	Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, Sr. AAG<br>Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR
Govt. of Puducherry	Mr. V.G. Pragasam, AOR<br>Mr. S. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv.
Chhattisgarh Environment<br>Conservation Board	Ms. Purnima Bhat Kak, AOR

	Ms. Sandhya Goswami, AOR
State of Sikkim	Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv.<br>Mr. Yusuf Khan, Adv.<br>Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv.<br>Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv.<br>for M/s Arputham Aruna & Co.
Agra Nagar Nigam	Mr. Pahlad Singh Sharma,<br>AOR
	Ms. Shalini Chandra,<br>AOR
State of Nagaland	Ms. K. Enatoli Sema, AOR<br>Mr. Edward Belho, Adv.<br>Mr. Amit Kumar Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. K. Luikang Michael, Adv.<br>Mr. Z.H. Issac Haiding, Adv.
	Mr. P.V. Yogeswaran, AOR
	Mr. Vikas Mehta, AOR
	Mr. B.D. Sharma, AOR
	Ms. Meera Mathur,<br>AOR
	Mr. Abhay Kumar,<br>AOR
	Mr. Milind Kumar,<br>AOR
	Mr. M.T. George, AOR
	Mr. Pahlad Singh Sharma, AOR
	Mr. Gaurav Agrawal, AOR
	Dr. A.M. Singhvi, Sr. Adv.<br>Mr. Vivek Kohli, Adv.<br>Mr. Nalin Talwar, Adv.<br>Ms. Anubha Singh, Adv.<br>Mr. Avishkar Singhvi, Adv.<br>Ms. Sanjana Mohanty, Adv.<br>Mr. Nikhil Mathur, Adv.
State of Maharashtra	Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR<br>Ms. Madhavi Divan, Adv.<br>Ms. Nidhi Khanna, Adv.
	Mr. B. Krishna Prasad, AOR

	Mr. K.N. Bhat, Sr. Adv.
	Ms. Priyanjali Yadav, Adv.
	Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR
State of Kerala	Mr. G. Prakash, AOR
	Mr. Jishnu M.L., Adv.
	Ms. Priyanka Prakash, Adv.
	Ms. Beena Prakash, Adv.
	Mr. Manu Srinath, Adv.
State of Manipur	Mr. Sapam Bishwajit Meitei, Adv.
	Mr. Naresh Kumar Gaur, Adv.
	Ms. Linthoingambi Thongam, Adv.
	Mr. M. Ghanshyam, Adv.
	Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, AOR
For Intervenor	Mr. Rajiv Dhawan, Sr. Adv.
	Mr. Manish Goswami, Adv.
	Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal, AOR
For Intervenor	Mr. Ashok Kumar Gupta II, AOR
For Intervenor	Ms. Indu Malhotra, Sr. Adv.
	Ms. Vandana Anand, Adv.
	Mr. Dheeraj Nair, AOR

UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

These matters have been heard inter alia on 1.9.2016, 7.9.2016, 15.9.2016, 16.9.2016, 20.9.2016 and 21.9.2016. In the course of submissions by the learned counsel, it has been stated today that longer time will be required in completing the hearing as more submissions are to be made by many learned counsel representing the parties. Thus, it may not be possible to conclude the hearing so as to enable this Bench to decide the matter within the time available.

In view of submission of the learned counsel for the parties and the learned Amicus Curiae, we direct that the matters be now listed for hearing on 9.11.2016 as first case.

At this stage, learned Amicus Curiae has invited the attention of the Court to the Order dated 3.4.2013 passed by this Court. The relevant part of the said order reads as follows:

"Ms. Indira Jaising, learned Additional Solicitor General invited the Court's attention to notifications issued by the Government of 23 States and the Administrators of 5 Union Territories for imposing complete ban on Gutkha and Pan Masala with tobacco and/or nicotine and then stated that notwithstanding the ban, the manufacturers have devised a subterfuge for selling Gutkha and Pan Masala in separate pouches and in this manner the ban is being flouted.

Ms. Indira Jaising also placed before the Court xerox copy of D.O.No.P.16012/12/11-Part I dated 27.08.2012 sent by the Special Secretary, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India to the Chief Secretaries of all the States except the States of Madhya Pradesh, Kerala, Bihar Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Haryana, Chhatisgarh and Jharkhand and submitted that the Court may call upon the remaining States and Union Territories to issue necessary notifications.

In view of the statement made by the learned Additional Solicitor General, we order issue of notice to the Chief Secretaries of the States and the Administrators of the Union Territories which have so far not issued notification in terms of 2006 Act to apprise this court with the reasons as to why they have not taken action pursuant to letter dated 27.08.2012.

We also direct the Secretaries, Health Department of all the 23 States and 5 Union Territories to file their affidavits within four weeks on the issue of total compliance of the ban imposed on manufacturing and sale of Gutkha and Pan Masala with tobacco and/or nicotine."

Learned Amicus Curiae has also invited our attention to paragraph 21 of the Written Submissions on behalf of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, in S.L.P. (C) No. 16308 of 2007, which reads as follows:

"21. It is most respectfully submitted that to circumvent the ban on the sale of gutkha, the manufacturers are selling pan masala (without tobacco) with flavoured chewing tobacco in separate sachets but often conjoint and sold together by the same vendors from the same premises, so that consumers can buy the pan masala and flavoured chewing tobacco and mix them both and consume the same. Hence, instead of the earlier "ready to consume mixes", chewing tobacco companies are selling gutkha in twin packs to be mixed as one"

Learned Amicus Curiae has also pointed out that this Court has not granted any stay of Regulation 2.3.4 of the Food Safety and Standards (Prohibition & Restrictions on Sales) Regulations, 2011 and the concerned authorities are duty bound to enforce the said regulation framed under Section 92 read with Section 26 of the Food Safety & Standards Act, 2006.

In view of the above, the concerned statutory authorities are directed to comply with the above mandate of law. We also direct the Secretaries, Health Department of all the States and Union Territories to file their affidavits before the next date of hearing on the issue of total compliance of the ban imposed on manufacturing and sale of Gutkha and Pan Masala with tobacco and/or nicotine.

(S. K. RAKHEJA) COURT MASTER

(MALA KUMARI SHARMA) COURT MASTER