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Report No. 47

Appendix 2

Figures as to Convictions and Punishments

Foreign Exchange¹

(a)	No. of cases registered relating to offences under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947, for the years 1968, 1969 and 1970	5702
(b)	No. of persons prosecuted under the Foreign Exchange Regulation Act, 1947 during the above period	97
(c)	No. of persons-
	(i) Convicted	77
	(ii) Acquitted	4
	(iii) Otherwise disposed of during the above period	42
(d)	Out of persons convicted, how many were
	(i) Sentenced to imprisonment	22 (including 20 persons sentenced to fine or in default imprisonment).
	(ii) Sentenced to fine	55
	(iii) Otherwise dealt with	-

1. Figures received with Shri Sampath's letter of 10th January, 1972.

Statement showing the information regarding cases registered under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and other Four Acts, during the years, 1969, 1970 and 1971 (upto 31-10-1971)¹

(Bombay City)

Year	No. of cases registered	Out of the cases mentioned in Col. No.2			Under investigation	Pending trial	Dormant field	Other wise disposed of	Out of the cases ended in conviction mentioned in Col. No. 3
		Convicted	Acquitted	Discharged					Fined below Rs. 500	Fined Rs. 500 and above
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1969	2427	2258	107	11	-	1	-	50	2182	76
1970	1957	1755	55	4	18	121	3	1	1685	69*
1971 (up to 31-10-71)	1079	694	5	1	101	278	-	-	678	16
Grand Total:	5463	4707	167	16	119	400	3	351	4545	161

*. In one case of 1970, the accused was sentenced to three month's rigorous imprisonment.

1. Figures taken from later dated 20-12-1971 of Shri E.S. Modak, Special I.G. Police, Maharashtra.

Statement of prosecutions launched under the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 during the period from 1965 to 1969¹

Year	No. of samples examined	No. of samples found adulterated	Percentage of samples found adulterated	No. of prosecutions lauched	No. of conviction	No. of persons imprisoned	Total fine realised (Rs.)
1965	166992	51957	31.1	46246	30250	1610	36,24,187.50
1966	174158	44508	25.1	40438	23282	4716	37,33,404,.00
1967	158192	39813	25.2	34439	20042	4395	35,59,386.00
1968	166112	40360	24.3	33923	17848	5570	33,86,087.80
1969	156561	34463	22.0	28037	15795	6122	34,08,259.50

1. Based on information obtained from Shri K. Satyanarayana, Under Secretary to the Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Planing (Department of Health) on 5th November, 1971.

The information is based on the reports from the C.B.I. on action taken by police in States/Union Territories in enforcing control regulations relating to foodgrains and other essential commodities.¹

Year (Jan-Dec)	No. of persons prosecuted	No. of persons convicted	No. of persons awarded Mandatory minimum period of one month's imprisonment	No. of persons awarded enhanced punishment from 3 years to 5 years imprisonment	No. of cases submitted for trial summary
1969	36626	13583	227	52	8422
1970	17456	8865	35	6	4148
1971(Jan-Aug)	8315	4279	45	-	1691
Forfeiture of packages, coverings etc. by courts.
1969	20025
1971(Jan-Aug)	2331

1. Information supplied by the Ministry of Industrial Development.

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