PATNA, India, May 20 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on May 16:
The petitioner, a Transportation and Logistics Company, has filed this petition for quashing the Notification No. 11 dated 18.10.2016 (Annexure-18), whereby, in exercise of powers under Section 3 of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'), the State Government has notified all medicines and medicinal preparations containing medicinal preparation 'Codeine' to be an intoxicant for the purposes of the Act, for it being ultra vires Sections 26-A and 26-B of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940, read with Entry 132 of Schedule-H read with Rules 65 and 97 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945 as also for the notification being...