When the matter came up for hearing on Friday, a Bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad acknowledged that industry-wide shutdown overnight posed significant challenges.
However, since any decision by the Bench would have wide-reaching impact on manufacturers, distributors, and consumers, the bench deemed it fit to let the Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Anil Singh appear with instructions from FSSAI.
“We agree that everything can’t be shut down overnight. However, we are not the experts or in the position to tell as to how we should analyse this product or its composition, and what we should call it if it is to be marketed. It is an old problem, to balance everything out. But since it is an industry wide issue, it is important that the ASG remain present.”
