Chandigarh, March 11 -- The fresh training of the inspectors in 2003 from a duly appointed, approved laboratory endorses the fact that the earlier notification was illegally issued, underlined the court

The Punjab and Haryana high court (HC) has acquitted a man 25 years after he was found with bread packets meant for sale without expiry date, as the food inspector who nabbed him was not qualified to take samples of the seizure.

The HC bench of justice NS Shekhawat upheld trial court order whereby the man accused of carrying "misbranded bread" in his vehicle for public sale was acquitted.

The complaint was instituted on February 28, 2001, and wide judgment August 21, 2008, the accused Jagdish Prasad was acquitted. It was against this or...