Section 78. Power of court to implead manufacturer, etc.

Where at any time during the trial of any offence under this Act alleged to have been committed by any person, not being the importer, manufacturer, distributor or dealer of any article of food, the court, is satisfied, on the evidence adduced before it, that such importer, manufacturer, distributor or dealer is also concerned with that offence, then the court may, 1[notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (3) of section 385 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (46 of 2023)], or in section 71 of this Act, proceed against him as though a prosecution has been instituted under this Act.