SOM NATH vs STATE

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$~35 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of Decision: December 19, 2025 + CRL.REV.P. 517/2014 SOM NATH .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Vivek Kumar Tandon, Ms. Ritu Rajput, Ms. Laxmi Gupta & Ms. Pooja Giri, Advs. along with petitioner in person. versus STATE .....Respondent Through: Mr. Sunil Kumar Gautam, APP for the State. SI Priyanka Saini, PS Bindapur. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMIT MAHAJAN AMIT MAHAJAN, J. (Oral) 1. The present petition is filed challenging the order dated 19.08.2014 (hereafter ‘impugned order’), passed by the learned Appellate Court in Criminal Appeal No. 41/14. 2. By the impugned order, the learned Appellate Court had dismissed the appeal filed by the petitioner and upheld the judgment dated 29.04.2013 and order on sentence dated 08.05.2013, passed in the case arising out of FIR No. 189/08 which was registered at Police Station Binda Pur, whereby the learned Trial Court had convicted the petitioner for the offences under Sections 7/10/55 of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and sentenced him to undergo simple imprisonment for a period Signature Not Verified Signed By:HARMINDER CRL.REV.P. 517/2014 Page 1 of 4 KAUR Signing Date:19.12.2025 20:23:59 of 8 months and to pay a fine of ₹5,000/-. The petitioner also challenges the aforesaid orders passed by the learned Trial Court. 3. Briefly stated, it is the case of the prosecution that on 21.07.2008, during an inspection by the officials of Food and Supply Department, the petitioner (license holder of a fair price shop) was found to have a number of irregularities in the stock of rice and wheat that had been issued to him. It was alleged that the petitioner violated provisions of Delhi Specified Articles control order 1981 and PDS control order 2001 issued under Section 3 of the Essential C