LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (REGULATION OF SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION) ORDER, 1993

R.7(d)--Essential Commodities Act, 1955, S.7--Acquittal--Accused prosecuted for charging excess price for LPG--Complainant no where explained that Rs.330 was charged in excess for price of cylinder--Neither any official of oil company nor any officer of Food and Supplies Department examined to explain as to what was actual price of gas cylinder--In absence of such evidence it would be difficult to say that Rs.330 were charged as excess price of gas cylinders particularly when it not case of prosecution that only gas cylinder was sold--Accused had sold connection which consists of gas cylinder, regulator, refilling charges etc.--No definite evidence has come to prove that Rs.330/- were paid extra by complainant--Accused acquitted.; Kala Devi v. State of Haryana, ; 2010(1) Law Herald (P&H) 794