A local court has acquitted a 26-year-old shop owner from Mumbra near here in a case of possessing 'gutkha', which is banned in Maharashtra.
District and Additional Sessions Judge AS Bhaisare, in his recent order, held that the prosecution has failed to prove the charges against the shop ownerNadim Suhel Ahmed Shaikh under various sectionsof the Indian Penal Code and the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006.
Public Prosecutor Sangita Phad informed the court that on January 28, 2015, police personnel and sleuths of Food and Drug's Administration raided the shop owned by Shaikh and seized from his possession banned goods including'Goa Gutka 1000' and 'Vimal panmasala'.
But after hearing the prosecution and defence, the Judge acquitted Shaikh of all the charges.
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