Section 78
Power of court to implead manufacturer, etc.
The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
About this Act
An Act to consolidate the laws relating to food and to establish the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India for laying down science based standards for articles of food and to regulate their manufacture, storage, distribution, sale and import, to ensure availability of safe and wholesome food for human consumption and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Where at any time during the trial of any offence
under this Act alleged to have been committed by any person, not being the importer, manufacturer,
distributor or dealer of any article of food, the court, is satisfied, on the evidence adduced before it, that
such importer, manufacturer, distributor or dealer is also concerned with that offence, then the court may,
notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of section 319 of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
1973 (2 of 1974), or in section 71 of this Act, proceed against him as though a prosecution has been
instituted under this Act.