From the judgment and order dated the 7th August 1969 of the Bombay High Court in Nagpur Bench at Nagpur in Criminal Appeal No.
177 of 1970.
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
25 of 1968.
C. Manchanda and O. P. Verma for the appellant.
The idea was that the motor van, which was touring the Vidarbba area, should reach Yeotmal by about the time when the goods were due to arrive and the person in charge.
C. Bhandare and M. N. Shroff, for the respondent.
The Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 the Act, for short is a life saving statute one of the provisions of which, together with a bunch of rules and forms, falls for interpretation and application to the substantially admitted facts set out companycisely in the order granting certificate of fitness to appeal.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. Every legislation is a social document and judicial companystruction seeks to decipher the statutory mission, language permitting, taking the cue from the rule in Heydons 1 case of suppressing the evil and advancing the remedy.
